Dictyophleba

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Dictyophleba is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1898. It is native to Africa and to the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=61481 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]Sosef, M.S.M. & al. (2006). Check-list des plantes vasculaires du Gabon. Scripta Botanica Belgica 35: 1-438.Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo , ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville.Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.

Lejoy, J., Ndjele, M.-B. & Geerinck, D. (2010). Catalogue-flore des plantes vasculaires des districts de Kisangani et de la Tshopo (RD Congo). Taxonomania. Revue de Taxonomie et de Nomenclature Botaniques 30: 1-307.

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1. Dictyophleba leonensis (Stapf) Pichon - West Africa from Cameroon to Liberia
2. Dictyophleba lucida (K.Schum.) Pierre - Comoros, central + southern Africa from Nigeria east to Tanzania and south to Zimbabwe
3. Dictyophleba ochracea (K.Schum. ex Hallier f.) Pichon - central Africa from Nigeria to Zaire
4. Dictyophleba rudens Hepper - Cameroon
5. Dictyophleba setosa B.de Hoogh - Cameroon, Gabon
6. Dictyophleba stipulosa (S.Moore ex Wernham) Pichon - from Ivory Coast to Congo-Brazzaville