Cleghornia

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Cleghornia_acuminata.jpg

|image_caption = C. acuminataillustration by Govindoo, published in Wight, R., Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis, vol. 4(2): t. 1310 (1846)

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|taxon = Cleghornia

|authority = Wight Two species were published at the same time in 1848 under the then newly coined name of Cleghornia in Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis 4(2): 5. 1848.; C. acuminata and C. cymosa {{ cite web |url=http://tropicos.org/Name/40009937 |title=Name - Cleghornia Wight |work=Tropicos |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |location=Saint Louis, Missouri |accessdate=May 16, 2011}}

|synonyms =

• Giadotrum Pichon

|synonyms_ref = {{cite web

|url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=41669

|title=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

|accessdate=May 21, 2014}}

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision_ref = {{ cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/NameSearch.aspx?name=Cleghornia |title=Name - Cleghornia Wight subordinate taxa |work=Tropicos |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |location=Saint Louis, Missouri |accessdate=July 13, 2011}}

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Cleghornia is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae. It includes two species, which are native to Borneo, China, Laos, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=41669 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

The genus name was chosen in dedication to Dr. Hugh Cleghorn,{{ cite journal |author=(conducted by) P.J.Selby, Esq., F.L.S. |author2=George Johnston, M.D. |author3=Charles C. Babington, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S. |author4=J.H.Balfour, M.D., Prof. Bot. Edinburgh |author5=Richard Taylor, F.L.S., F.G.S. |name-list-style=amp |title=Proceedings of the Royal Society ; Zoological Society ; Botanical Society of Edinburgh |year=1850 |volume=VI |issue=2nd Series |pages=142 |journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History |quote=...Cleghornia, a new genus of Apocynaceæ, named by Dr. Wight, in honour of Dr. Hugh Cleghorn |publisher=R. and J.E.Taylor |location=London |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16086567 |format=PDF |accessdate=July 13, 2011}} the "father of scientific forestry in India".{{cite journal |title=The Hill Forests of Western India |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=EVVDAAAAYAAJ&dq=The+father+of+scientific+forestry+in+India&pg=PA734 |journal= Journal of the Society of Arts |author=Society of Arts (Great Britain) |author-link=Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce|volume= 47 |publisher=George Bell and Sons |year=1899 |place=Covent Garden, London |page=735 |accessdate= July 13, 2011 }}

;Species

• Cleghornia acuminata Wight - Sri Lanka
• Cleghornia malaccensis (Hook.f.) King & Gamble - Guizhou, Yunnan, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, W Malaysia

;formerly included

• C. borneensis King & Gamble = Anodendron borneense (King & Gamble) D.J.Middleton
• C. chinensis (Merr.) P.T.Li = Sindechites chinensis (Merr.) Markgr. & Tsiang
• C. cymosa Wight = Cleghornia acuminata Wight
• C. dongnaiensis Pierre ex Pit. = Cleghornia malaccensis (Hook.f.) King & Gamble
• C. gracilis King & Gamble = Anodendron gracile (King & Gamble) D.J.Middleton
• C. henryi (Oliv.) P.T.Li = Sindechites henryi Oliv.