Wrightia
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Wrightia | |
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Wrightia antidysenterica | |
Scientific classification | |
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Wrightia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1810. It native to tropical Africa, China, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Papuasia, and Australia.[1] The species are all small trees or shrubs.[2]
The genus was named for William Wright (1735-1819), Scottish physician and botanist, by Robert Brown.
Wrightia antidysenterica has long been known in Indian Ayurvedic tradition, and is called "kuţaja" in Sanskrit.
- Species[1]
- Wrightia angustifolia - Sri Lanka
- Wrightia annamensis - S China, Cambodia, Vietnam
- Wrightia antidysenterica - Sri Lanka
- Wrightia arborea - S China, India, Sri Lanka, Himalayas, Indochina
- Wrightia candollei - Philippines
- Wrightia coccinea - S China, Himalayas, Indochina
- Wrightia collettii Ngan - Myanmar
- Wrightia cunninghamii - Western Australia
- Wrightia demartiniana - Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya
- Wrightia dolichocarpa - W India
- Wrightia dubia - Indochina, W Malaysia
- †Wrightia flavorosea - Sri Lanka but extinct
- Wrightia hanleyi - Palawan
- Wrightia indica - S India
- Wrightia karaketii - Thailand
- Wrightia laevis - S China, SE Asia, Papuasia, Queensland
- Wrightia lanceolata - S Thailand
- Wrightia lecomtei - Cambodia, Vietnam
- Wrightia natalensis -southern Africa
- Wrightia novobritannica - New Britain
- Wrightia palawanensis - Palawan
- Wrightia poomae - Thailand
- †Wrightia puberula - Sri Lanka but extinct
- Wrightia pubescens - S China, SE Asia, Papuasia, N Australia
- Wrightia religiosa - Guangdong, Indochina, W Malaysia
- Wrightia saligna - N Australia
- Wrightia siamensis - Thailand
- Wrightia sikkimensis - S China, E Himalayas, Vietnam
- Wrightia sirikitiae - Thailand
- Wrightia tinctoria - India, Nepal, Myanmar, Vietnam, Timor and Australia
- Wrightia tokiae - Thailand
- Wrightia viridiflora - Thailand
- formerly included[1]
- Wrightia afzelii, syn of Pleioceras afzelii
- Wrightia bacelliana, syn of Melodinus acutiflorus
- Wrightia parviflora, syn of Pleioceras barteri
- Wrightia piscidia, syn of Melodinus cochinchinensis
- Wrightia stuhlmannii, syn of Alafia lucida