Dregea

Dregea
Dregea sinensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Flowering plants
(unranked):	Eudicots
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Apocynaceae
Subfamily:	Asclepiadoideae
Genus:	Dregea E.Mey. 1838, conserved name, not Eckl. & Zeyh. 1837
Type species
Dregea floribunda E.Mey.
Synonyms[1]
Wattakaka Hasskarl

Dregea is a genus of vines in the Apocynaceae, first described as a genus with this name in 1838.^[2] It is native to Africa and southern Asia.^[1]

Species^[3]

1. Dregea abyssinica (Hochst.) K.Schum. - Ethiopia
2. Dregea crinita (Oliv.) Bullock - Nigeria
3. Dregea cuneifolia Tsiang & P.T.Li - Guangxi Province in China
4. Dregea faulknerae Bullock - Tanzania
5. Dregea floribunda E.Mey. - South Africa
6. Dregea lanceolata (Cooke) Santapau & Wagh - Maharashtra
7. Dregea rubicunda K.Schum. - Kenya, Uganda
8. Dregea sinensis Hemsl. - China (Gansu, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan, Zhejiang)
9. Dregea schimperi (Decne.) Bullock - Ethiopia
10. Dregea stelostigma (K.Schum.) Bullock - tropical Africa
11. Dregea volubilis (L.f.) Benth. ex Hook.f. - China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Taiwan, Yunnan) Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Kashmir, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
12. Dregea yunnanensis (Tsiang) Tsiang & P.T.Li - China (Gansu, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan)
13. Dregea volubilis Stapf - Sri Lanka

References

1. Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 250, 南山藤属 nan shan teng shu Dregea E. Meyer, Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr. 199. 1838. Dregea sp.
2. Meyer, Ernst Heinrich Friedrich . 1838. Commentariorum de Plantis Africae Australioris 199
3. The Plant List, genus Dregea

External links

• photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, Dregea floribunda, collected in South Africa
• photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, Dregea rubicunda, collected in Uganda
• photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, Dregea volubilis, collected in Hong Kong