Leptactina

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Leptactina_delagoensis_subsp._delagoensis_1DS-II_3-2689.jpg

|image_caption = Leptactina delagoensis subsp. delagoensis

|display_parents = 2

|taxon = Leptactina

|authority = Hook.f. (1871){{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?6695 |title=Genus: Leptactina Hook. f. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=1996-09-17 |access-date=2011-01-27}}

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = 27; see text

|subdivision_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:34827-1 Leptactina Hook.f.] Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 9 December 2023.

|synonyms =

• Coleactina {{small|N.Hallé (1970)}}
• Dictyandra {{small|Welw. ex Hook.f. (1873)}}

|synonyms_ref =

}}

Leptactina is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. There are about 27 species. They are all native to sub-Saharan Africa, where most occur in rainforest habitat.Robbrecht, E., & De Block, P. (1999). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3668528?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents The geofrutescent Leptactina Species (Rubiaceae, Pavetteae) of the'Flore d'Afrique Centrale'Area.] Systematics and Geography of Plants, 125–133.

27 species are accepted:

• Leptactina angolensis {{small|(Hutch.) Bullock ex I.Nogueira}}
• Leptactina arborescens {{small|(Welw. ex Benth. & Hook.f.) De Block}}
• Leptactina benguelensis {{small|(Welw. ex Benth. & Hook.f.) R.D.Good}}
• Leptactina congolana {{small|(Robbr.) De Block}}
• Leptactina deblockiae {{small|Neuba & Sonké}}
• Leptactina delagoensis {{small|K.Schum.}}
• Leptactina densiflora Hook.f.
• Leptactina epinyctios {{small|Bullock ex Verdc.}}
• Leptactina euclinioides {{small|K.Schum.}}
• Leptactina formosa {{small|K.Schum.}}
• Leptactina gloeocalyx {{small|K.Schum.}}
• Leptactina involucrata {{small|Hook.f.}}
• Leptactina latifolia {{small|K.Schum.}}
• Leptactina laurentiana {{small|Dewèvre}}
• Leptactina liebrechtsiana {{small|De Wild. & T.Durand}}
• Leptactina mannii {{small|Hook.f.}}
• Leptactina oxyloba {{small|K.Schum.}}
• Leptactina papalis {{small|(N.Hallé) De Block}}
• Leptactina papyrophloea Verdc.
• Leptactina platyphylla {{small|(Hiern) Wernham}}
• Leptactina polyneura {{small|K.Krause}}
• Leptactina pretrophylax {{small|K.Schum.}}
• Leptactina prostrata {{small|K.Schum.}}
• Leptactina pynaertii {{small|De Wild.}}
• Leptactina rheophytica {{small|Sonké & Neuba}}
• Leptactina senegambica Hook.f.{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?6695 |title=GRIN Species Records of Leptactina |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |access-date=2011-01-27}}
• Leptactina tessmannii {{small|K.Krause}}