Orbea (plant)

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Other uses|Orbea (disambiguation)}}

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|image_caption = Orbea schweinfurthii

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|taxon = Orbea

|authority = Haw.

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Angolluma| R.Munster|

Diplocyatha| N.E.Br.|

Orbeanthus| L.C.Leach|

Orbeopsis| L.C.Leach|

Pachycymbium| L.C.Leach|

Podanthes| Haw.|

Stapeliopsis| E.Phillips|

Stultitia| E.Phillips

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Orbea is a genus of flowering plants of the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1812.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10003837#page/46/mode/1up Haworth, Adrian Hardy. 1812. Synopsis plantarum succulentarum 37.] It is native to AfricaGibbs 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).Leach, Leslie Charles. 1975. Kirkia 10(1): 289-291. and the Arabian Peninsula.

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Species accepted by the Plants of the World Online as of February 2023:

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• Orbea abayensis {{small|(M.G.Gilbert) Bruyns}} - Ethiopia
• Orbea albocastanea {{small|(Marloth) Bruyns}} - Great Namaqualand in Namibia
• Orbea araysiana {{small|(Lavranos & Bilaidi) Bruyns}}
• Orbea baldratii {{small|(A.C.White & B.Sloane) Bruyns}} - Eritrea
• Orbea carnosa {{small|(Stent) Bruyns}} - Limpopo, Mpumalanga
• Orbea caudata {{small|(N.E.Br.) Bruyns}}
• Orbea chrysostephana {{small|(Deflers) Bruyns}}
• Orbea ciliata {{small|(Thunb.) L.C.Leach}} - South Africa
• Orbea circes {{small|(M.G.Gilbert) Bruyns}}
• Orbea conjuncta {{small|(A.C.White & B.Sloane) Bruyns}}
• Orbea cooperi {{small|(N.E.Br.) L.C.Leach}} - South Africa
• Orbea cucullata {{small|(Plowes) Meve}}
• Orbea decaisneana {{small|(Lem.) Bruyns}} - Senegal
• Orbea deflersiana {{small|(Lavranos) Bruyns}}
• Orbea denboefii {{small|(Lavranos) Bruyns}} - Kenya
• Orbea distincta {{small|(E.A.Bruce) Bruyns}} - Tanzania
• Orbea dummeri {{small|(N.E.Br.) Bruyns}} - Uganda, Ethiopia
• Orbea fenestrata {{small|(Plowes) Meve}}
• Orbea gemugofana {{small|(M.G.Gilbert) Bruyns}}
• Orbea gerstneri {{small|(Letty) Bruyns}} - KwaZulu-Natal
• Orbea gilbertii {{small|(Plowes) Bruyns}}
• Orbea halipedicola {{small|L.C.Leach}} - Mozambique
• Orbea hardyi {{small|(R.A.Dyer) Bruyns}}
• Orbea huernioides {{small|(P.R.O.Bally) Bruyns}}
• Orbea huillensis {{small|(Hiern) Bruyns}} - tropical Africa
• Orbea knobelii {{small|(E.Phillips) Bruyns}} - Botswana
• Orbea laikipiensis {{small|(M.G.Gilbert) Bruyns}}
• Orbea laticorona {{small|(M.G.Gilbert) Bruyns}}
• Orbea longidens {{small|(N.E.Br.) L.C.Leach}} - Mozambique
• Orbea lugardii {{small|(N.E.Br.) Bruyns}}
• Orbea luntii {{small|(N.E.Br.) Bruyns}}
• Orbea lutea {{small|(N.E.Br.) Bruyns}} - South Africa
• Orbea maculata {{small|(N.E.Br.) L.C.Leach}} - tropical Africa
• Orbea mcloughlinii {{small|(I.Verd.) L.C.Leach}}
• Orbea melanantha {{small|(Schltr.) Bruyns}} - South Africa
• Orbea miscella {{small|(N.E.Br.) Meve}}
• Orbea namaquensis {{small|(N.E.Br.) L.C.Leach}} - South Africa, Namibia
• Orbea nardii {{small|Raffaelli, Mosti & Tardelli}}
• Orbea paradoxa {{small|(I.Verd.) L.C.Leach}} - KwaZulu-Natal
• Orbea parviloba {{small|(Bruyns) Meve}}
• Orbea pulchella {{small|(Masson) L.C.Leach}} - South Africa
• Orbea rogersii {{small|(L.Bolus) Bruyns}}
• Orbea sacculata {{small|(N.E.Br.) Bruyns}}
• Orbea schweinfurthii {{small|(A.Berger) Bruyns}} - tropical Africa
• Orbea semitubiflora {{small|(L.E.Newton) Bruyns}}
• Orbea semota {{small|(N.E.Br.) L.C.Leach}} - Tanzania
• Orbea sprengeri {{small|(E.Dammann & Sprenger) Bruyns}}
• Orbea subterranea {{small|(E.A.Bruce & P.R.O.Bally) Bruyns}}
• Orbea taitica {{small|Bruyns}} - Kenya
• Orbea tapscottii {{small|(I.Verd.) L.C.Leach}} - Botswana
• Orbea tubiformis {{small|(E.A.Bruce & P.R.O.Bally) Bruyns}}
• Orbea umbracula {{small|(M.D.Hend.) L.C.Leach}} - Zimbabwe
• Orbea valida {{small|(N.E.Br.) Bruyns}} - Zimbabwe
• Orbea variegata {{small|(L.) Haw.}} - South Africa
• Orbea verrucosa {{small|(Masson) L.C.Leach}} - South Africa
• Orbea vibratilis {{small|(E.A.Bruce & P.R.O.Bally) Bruyns}}
• Orbea wilsonii {{small|(P.R.O.Bally) Bruyns}}
• Orbea wissmannii {{small|(O.Schwartz) Bruyns}}
• Orbea woodii {{small|(N.E.Br.) L.C.Leach}} - KwaZulu-Natal

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