Sacleuxia
{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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Sacleuxia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae.{{cite web |title=Sacleuxia Baill. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:3667-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=4 December 2021 |language=en}} It is also in the Periplocoideae subfamily.
It is native to Kenya and Tanzania in eastern Tropical Africa.
The genus name of Sacleuxia is in honour of Charles Sacleux (1856–1943), a French Catholic missionary and linguist. He is known also as a botanist, having collected a herbarium of over 2000 plants in East Africa and Zanzibar.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}}
It was first described and published in Hist. Pl. Vol.10 on page 265 in 1890.
The genus is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, but they note it could be a possible synonym of Cryptolepis {{small|R. Br.}}{{cite web |title=Genus Sacleuxia Baill. |url=https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomygenus?id=16360 |website=npgsweb.ars-grin.gov |access-date=4 December 2021}}