Gonostemon

Gonostemon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Gonostemon
Family:	Apocynaceae
Subfamily:	Asclepiadoideae
Tribe:	Stapeliae
Genus:	Gonostemon Haw.
Synonyms[1]
Stapelia sect. Gonostemon (Haw.) Haw.

Gonostemon is a genus of plants in the Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1812.^[2][3]

Accepted species^[4]

Over 70 names have been published for species assigned to Gonostemon, most of the regarded as "unresolved," i.e., of uncertain affiliation. Only the following 3 are listed as "accepted" by the Plant List maintained by Kew Gardens in London

1. Gonostemon fissirostris (Jacq.) P.V. Heath - southern Africa
2. Gonostemon grandiflorus (N.E. Br.) Fisch. & C.A. Mey. ex C.A. Mey. - southern Africa
3. Gonostemon rubiginosa (Nel) P.V. Heath - Little Namaqualand

formerly included

moved to another genus (Stapelia)

1. G. giganteus now Stapelia gigantea
2. G. giganteus var. nobilis now Stapelia nobilis
3. G. macowanii now Stapelia macowanii
4. G. parvulus now Stapelia parvula
5. G. pulvinatus now Stapelia pulvinata
6. G. schinzii var. angolensis now Stapelia schinzii var. angolensis

References

1. Tropicos
2. Haworth, Adrian Hardy. 1812. Supplementum Plantarum Succulentarum 27.
3. Gibbs Russell, G. E., W. G. M. Welman, E. Retief, K. L. Immelman, G. Germishuizen, B. J. Pienaar, M. Van Wyk & A. Nicholas. 1987. List of species of southern African plants. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa 2(1–2): 1–152(pt. 1), 1–270(pt. 2).
4. The Plant List, genus Gonostemon