Pleiocarpa

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Pleiocarpa mutica 136-8343.jpg

| image_caption = Pleiocarpa mutica1910 illustration from M.S. del., J.N.Fitch lith. - Curtis's Botanical Magazine, London., vol. 136 [= ser. 4, vol. 6]: Tab. 8343

| display_parents = 2

| taxon = Pleiocarpa

| authority = Benth.{{Citation |contribution=Pleiocarpa|title=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=158924 |accessdate=18 August 2013}}

| synonyms =

• Carpodinopsis Pichon

| synonyms_ref = {{cite web

|url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=158924

|title=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

|accessdate=May 18, 2014}}

}}

Pleiocarpa is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1876. It is native to tropical Africa from Senegal to Tanzania and south to Zimbabwe. {{As of|2013|August}} the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families recognises 6 species:Search for "Pleiocarpa", {{Citation |title=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/ |accessdate=18 August 2013 }}

;Species

1. Pleiocarpa bicarpellata Stapf - Cabinda, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya
2. Pleiocarpa brevistyla Omino - Gabon
3. Pleiocarpa mutica Benth. - Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo
4. Pleiocarpa picralimoides (Pichon) Omino - Cabinda, Republic of the Congo, Gabon
5. Pleiocarpa pycnantha (K.Schum) Stapf - widespread across most of tropical Africa
6. Pleiocarpa rostrata Benth. - Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon

;formerly included in genus

1. Pleiocarpa camerunensis (K.Schum. ex Hallier f.) Stapf = Hunteria camerunensis K.Schum. ex Hallier f.
2. Pleiocarpa hockii De Wild. - Acokanthera oppositifolia (Lam.) Codd
3. Pleiocarpa simii (Stapf) Stapf ex Hutch. & Dalziel = Hunteria simii (Stapf) H.Huber