Marsdenia is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1810.[1] It is named in honor of the plant collector and Secretary of the Admiralty, William Marsden.[2] The plants are native to tropical regions in Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas.[3][4][5][6]
transferred to other genera (Anisopus, Blepharodon, Cionura, Cynanchum, Dischidanthus, Dischidiopsis, Dittoceras, Dregea, Gongronema, Gymnema, Jasminanthes, Leichardtia, Lygisma, Matelea, Metalepis, Pergularia, Sarcolobus, Secamonopsis, Sinomenium, Stephanotis, Stigmatorhynchus, Vincetoxicum, Wattakaka)
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro Marsdenia is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1810. It is named in honor of the plant collector and Secretary of the Admiralty, William Marsden. The plants are native to tropical regions in Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas.
Species Marsdenia altissima Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay Marsdenia amorimii - Bahia in E Brazil Marsdenia amylacea - N Brazil Marsdenia angolensis - Angola Marsdenia araujacea - Australia Marsdenia asplundii - Ecuador, Colombia Marsdenia astephanoides - Jalisco in Mexico Marsdenia australis - Australia Marsdenia beatricis - N Venezuela Marsdenia bergii - Pará in Brazil Marsdenia bourgeana - S Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras Marsdenia brachyloba - Yunnan in China Marsdenia brasiliensis - Goiás in Brazil Marsdenia brevisquama - Madagascar Marsdenia caatingae - Minas Gerais + Bahia in Brazil Marsdenia callosa - S Mexico Marsdenia carterae - Baja California Sur Marsdenia carvalhoi - Brazil Marsdenia castillonii - Tucumán in Argentina Marsdenia cavaleriei - Guizhou in China Marsdenia chinensis - S China Marsdenia chirindensis - Zimbabwe Marsdenia chunii - Guangdong in China Marsdenia condensiflora - Venezuela, Colombia Marsdenia cordifolia - Madagascar Marsdenia coronata - Australia Marsdenia coulteri - E + S Mexico Marsdenia crassipes - Panama Marsdenia cryptostemma - Madagascar Marsdenia cundurango - Ecuador, Peru Marsdenia dorothyae - Rio de Janeiro Marsdenia dracontea - Brazil Marsdenia dressleri - Panama, Nicaragua Marsdenia dussii - Lesser Antilles Marsdenia ecuadorensis - Ecuador Marsdenia edulis - Sonora in Mexico Marsdenia elliptica - Puerto Rico Marsdenia engleriana - Costa Rica, Nicaragua Marsdenia exellii - São Tomé Marsdenia floribunda - West Indies, Central America Marsdenia fontella - Brazil Marsdenia fontellana - Brazil Marsdenia formosana - Taiwan Marsdenia fruticosa - Chiapas, Guatemala Marsdenia gallardoae - Oaxaca Marsdenia gilgiana - S Mexico, Central America Marsdenia gillespieae - Guyana Marsdenia glabra - S China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand Marsdenia glaziovii - Brazil Marsdenia glomerata - Zhejiang in China Marsdenia griffithii - S China, E India Marsdenia gualanensis - S Mexico, Central America Marsdenia guanchezii - Amazonas State in Venezuela Marsdenia guaranitica - Paraguay Marsdenia hainanensis - S China, Vietnam Marsdenia hassleriana - Paraguay Marsdenia hatschbachii - Paraná in Brazil Marsdenia heringeri - Pernambuco in Brazil Marsdenia heterophylla - Brazil Marsdenia hilariana - Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela Marsdenia hiriartiana - Guatemala, Honduras, Chiapas Marsdenia incisa - Guangxi + Yunnan in China Marsdenia inelegans - Colombia, Bolivia Marsdenia koi - S China, Vietnam, Myanmar Marsdenia lachnostoma - Hong Kong, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand Marsdenia lauretiana - Peru Marsdenia laxiflora - S Mexico, Central America Marsdenia lloydii - Australia Marsdenia longipes - Guangxi + Yunnan in China Marsdenia loniceroides - Brazil Marsdenia macrantha - Mozambique Marsdenia mackeeorum - New Caledonia Marsdenia macrocalyx - Brazil Marsdenia macrophylla - S America, C America, W Indies, S Mexico Marsdenia magniflora - S China Marsdenia maingayi - W Malaysia Marsdenia malmeana - Matto Grosso Marsdenia mayana - S Mexico, N Central America Marsdenia medogensis - Tibet Marsdenia megalantha - Bahia in Brazil Marsdenia mexicana - S Mexico, Guatemala Marsdenia micradenia - Australia Marsdenia montana - Minas Gerais Marsdenia naiguatensis - N Venezuela Marsdenia neomanarae - Brazil Marsdenia nicaraguensis - Nicaragua Marsdenia nicoyana - Central America Marsdenia nitida - West Indies Marsdenia oaxacana - Oaxaca Marsdenia officinalis - S China Marsdenia olgamarthae - Nicaragua Marsdenia oligantha - Peru Marsdenia oreophila - Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan Marsdenia otoniensis - Minas Gerais Marsdenia pachyglossa - Luzon in Philippines Marsdenia panamensis - Panama Marsdenia paraguaiensis - Paraguay Marsdenia parviflora - Indonesia Marsdenia parvifolia - C Mexico Marsdenia pickelii - Pernambuco Marsdenia pinetorum - Honduras Marsdenia popoluca - E Mexico Marsdenia pringlei - Mexico Marsdenia propinqua - Mexico Marsdenia pseudoedulis - Guatemala Marsdenia pseudotinctoria - Guangxi, Yunnan Marsdenia pulchella - Sichuan Marsdenia purpusiana - Veracruz in Mexico Marsdenia quadrialata - Madagascar Marsdenia queirozii - Bahia in Brazil Marsdenia riparia - Brazil Marsdenia rivularis - New Guinea Marsdenia robinsonii - Venezuela Marsdenia rotheana - Panama Marsdenia roylei - Himalayas Marsdenia rubrofusca - Loreto in Peru Marsdenia rzedowskiana - Puebla in Mexico Marsdenia schlechteriana - Chiapas, Guatemala, El Salvador Marsdenia sessilifolia - Minas Gerais Marsdenia schneideri - Sichuan, Yunnan, Laos, Vietnam Marsdenia sinensis - S China Marsdenia smithii - Venezuela Marsdenia spiralis - Paraguay, Bolivia Marsdenia sprucei - Venezuela Marsdenia stenantha - Sichuan, Yunnan Marsdenia stephanotidifolia - Guatemala Marsdenia steyermarkii - Guatemala Marsdenia suberosa - Rio de Janeiro Marsdenia tenacissima - India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Yunnan, N Indochina Marsdenia tenii - Yunnan Marsdenia thomasii - Mato Grosso Marsdenia tinctoria - China, India, Sri Lanka, SE Asia Marsdenia tingens - New Zealand Marsdenia tomentosa - Taiwan, Japan, Korea Marsdenia tressensiae - Corrientes in Argentina Marsdenia trivirgulata - Mexico Marsdenia truncata - Madagascar Marsdenia tubularis - Mexico Marsdenia tubulosa - Australia Marsdenia tumida - New Guinea Marsdenia ulei - Bahia in Brazil Marsdenia undulata - Panama Marsdenia veronicae - Central America Marsdenia verrucosa - Madagascar Marsdenia virgultorum - Brazil Marsdenia vohiborensis - Madagascar Marsdenia weberbaueri - Peru Marsdenia weddellii - Brazil Marsdenia xerohylica - Colombia Marsdenia yuei - Yunnan Marsdenia yunnanensis - Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan Marsdenia zehntneri - Bahia in Brazil Marsdenia zimapanica - Oaxaca formerly includedtransferred to other genera (Anisopus, Blepharodon, Cionura, Cynanchum, Dischidanthus, Dischidiopsis, Dittoceras, Dregea, Gongronema, Gymnema, Jasminanthes, Leichardtia, Lygisma, Matelea, Metalepis, Pergularia, Sarcolobus, Secamonopsis, Sinomenium, Stephanotis, Stigmatorhynchus, Vincetoxicum, Wattakaka)
M. abyssinica now Dregea abyssinica M. acuminata (Wall.) I.M.Turner now Gymnema acuminatum M. acuminata (Brongn.) Choux now Stephanotis acuminata M. acuta now Sinomenium acutum M. angustifolia now Lygisma angustifolia M. barbata now Gymnema barbatum M. batesii now Anisopus mannii M. bicolor now Matelea bicolor M. bicoronata now Anisopus bicoronata M. billardieri now Leichardtia billardieri M. brachystephana now Sarcolobus brachystephanus M. brevifolia now Gymnema brevifolium M. brunoniana now Pergularia brunoniana M. calesiana now Pergularia calesiana M. cinerascens now Tylophora cinerascens M. clausa now Pergularia clausa M. crinita now Dregea crinita M. dissitiflora now Gymnema dissitiflorum M. efulensis now Anisopus efulensis M. erecta now Cionura erecta M. ericoides now Leichardtia ericoides M. faulknerae now Dregea faulknerae M. flavescens now Pergularia flavescens M. gazensis now Gongronema gazense M. geminata now Gymnema sylvestre M. glabriflora now Gongronema latifolium M. gracilis now Blepharodon mucronatum M. grandiflora (Decne.) Choux 1923 not C.Norman 1929 now Stephanotis grandiflora M. hamiltonii now Pergularia hamiltonii M. hirta now Gymnema hirtum M. javanica now Cynanchum javanicum M. lactifera now Gymnema lactiferum M. lanceolata now Wattakaka lanceolata M. leonensis now Gongronema latifolium M. leptophylla now Leichardtia leptophylla M. littoralis now Gymnema littorale M. longiflora now Stephanotis longiflora M. madagascariensis now Secamonopsis madagascariensis M. matudae now Metalepis peraffinis M. muelleri now Gymnema muelleri M. neriifolia now Blepharodon gomphocarpoides M. obscura now Gongronema obscurum M. parasita now Dischidiopsis parasitica M. picta now Blepharodon pictum M. pilosa now Jasminanthes pilosa M. pleiadenia now Gymnema pleiadenium M. racemosa now Gongronema latifolium M. rhynchogyna now Anisopus mannii M. rostrata now Pergularia rostrata M. rostrata var. dunnii now Gymnema dunnii M. rostrifera now Anisopus rostrifera M. schimperi now Dregea schimperi M. stellaris now Dittoceras stellaris M. stelostigma now Dregea stelostigma M. suaveolens now Pergularia suaveolens M. suborbicularis now Gymnema suborbiculare M. sylvestris now Gymnema sylvestre M. syringifolia now Gymnema syringifolium M. taylorii now Gongronema taylorii M. thouarsii now Stephanotis thouarsii M. tikalana now Gonolobus glaberrimus M. tricholepis now Gymnema tricholepis M. trinervis now Gymnema trinerve M. umbellifera now Stigmatorhynchus umbelliferus M. urceolata now Dischidanthus urceolatus M. velutina now Tylophora velutina M. vincaeflora now Stephanotis vincaeflora M. viridiflora now Pergularia viridiflora M. volubilis now Wattakaka volubilis M. woodburyana now Ruehssia woodburyana