Spirolobium

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}

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|image = Spirolobium cambodianum 68771276.jpg

|image_caption = Spirolobium cambodianum in Cambodia

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|genus = Spirolobium

|parent_authority = Baill. 1889, conserved name, not Orb. 1839

|species = cambodianum

|authority = Baill.

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|synonyms =

  • Holarrhena pauciflora Ridl.

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Spirolobium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1889. It includes only one known species, Spirolobium cambodianum, native to Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo).[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=194605 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]Middleton, D.J. (2007). Apocynaceae (subfamilies Rauvolfioideae and Apocynoideae). Flora Malesiana 18: 1-474. Noordhoff-Kolff N.V., Djakarta.Middleton, D.J. (2011). Flora of peninsular Malaysia , II, 2: 1-235. Institut Penyelidikan Perhutanan Malaysia.

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