Cordylostigma

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}

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|image = Cordylostigma virgatum 1DS-II 4-2479.jpg

|image_caption = Cordylostigma virgatum in South Africa

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|taxon = Cordylostigma

|authority = Groeninckx & Dessein

|type_species = Kohautia longifolia

|type_species_authority = Klotzsch

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Cordylostigma is a genus in the Rubiaceae. The name was coined in 2010 to contain 9 species formerly belonging to the related genus Kohautia.{{cite journal|vauthors=Groeninckx I, Ochoterena H, Smets E, Dessein S |year=2010|title=Molecular phylogenetic and morphological study of Kohautia (Spermacoceae, Rubiaceae), with the recognition of the new genus Cordylostigma|journal=Taxon|volume=59|issue=5|pages=1457–1471|doi=10.1002/tax.595011}} The nine species are native to tropical and southern Africa from Guinea to Somalia to South Africa, as well as Madagascar, Comoros, and Réunion.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=462526 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Cordylostigma]