Plocama
{{Short description|Genus of plants}}
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|image = Putoria calabrica.jpg
|image_caption = Plocama calabrica
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|taxon = Plocama
|authority = Aiton
|type_species = Plocama pendula
|type_species_authority = Aiton
|synonyms =
- Aitchisonia Hemsl. ex Aitch.
- Bartlingia Rchb.
- Choulettia Pomel.
- Crocyllis E.Mey. ex Hook.f.
- Gaillonia A.Rich. ex DC.
- Jaubertia Guill.
- Neogaillonia Lincz.
- Placodium Hook.f.
- Pseudogaillonia Linchevskii
- Pterogaillonia Linchevskii
- Putoria Pers.
}}
Plocama is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described by William Aiton in 1789. It is distributed from the Canary Islands to northwestern India.{{cite web|url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/rubiaceae/|title=World Checklist of Rubiaceae|accessdate=17 January 2017}}
The genus was expanded in 2007 when several other Rubiaceae genera were merged into it. There are now about 34 species.Backlund, M., Bremer, B., & Thulin, M. (2007). [http://www.bergianska.se/polopoly_fs/1.68372.1325502759!/menu/standard/file/Backlund_et_al_2007.pdf Paraphyly of Paederieae, recognition of Putorieae and expansion of Plocama (Rubiaceae-Rubioideae).] Taxon, 56(2), 315-328.
Plants of this genus are herbs or shrubs. They generally have an offensive scent when crushed. The leaves are oppositely arranged. The corolla is funnel shaped with a short to long tubular base. The fruit is either a drupe or a body that splits into two parts when ripe.
Species
Plants of the World Online includes:
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- Plocama afghanica (Ehrend.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama asperuliformis (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama aucheri (Guill.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama botschantzevii (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama brevifolia (Coss. & Durieu ex Pomel) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama bruguieri (A.Rich. ex DC.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama bucharica (B.Fedtsch. & Des.-Shost.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama calabrica (L.f.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama calcicola (Puff) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama calycoptera (Decne.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama corcyllis (Sond.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama crucianelloides (Jaub. & Spach) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama dubia (Aitch. & Hemsl.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama eriantha (Jaub. & Spach) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama hymenostephana (Jaub. & Spach) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama iljinii (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama inopinata (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama jolana (Thulin) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama kandaharensis (Ehrend. & Qarar ex (Ehrend. & Schönb.-Tem.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama macrantha (Blatt. & Hallb.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama mestscherjakovii (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama olivieri (A.Rich. ex DC.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama pendula Aiton
- Plocama puberula (Balf.f.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama putorioides (Radcl.-Sm.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama reboudiana (Coss. & Durieu) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama rosea (Hemsl. ex Aitch.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama somaliensis (Puff) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama szowitzii (DC.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama thymoides (Balf.f.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama tinctoria (Balf.f.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama trichophylla (Popov) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama vassilczenkoi (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama yemenensis (Thulin) M.Backlund & Thulin
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References
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External links
- [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/rubiaceae/ World Checklist of Rubiaceae]
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