Fadogia
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Fadogia is a genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of flowering plant
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...

s in the family
Family (biology)
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 Rubiaceae
Rubiaceae
The Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the coffee family, madder family, or bedstraw family. The group contains many commonly known plants, including the economically important coffee , quinine , and gambier , and the horticulturally valuable madder , west indian jasmine ,...

. The genera Rytigynia
Rytigynia
Rytigynia is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is found in tropical and southern Africa. The genera Rytigynia and Fadogia form a strongly supported clade but neither of these genera is monophyletic.-Species:...

and Fadogia form a strongly supported
Resampling (statistics)
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 clade
Clade
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 but neither of these genera is monophyletic.

Species

  • Fadogia ancylantha Schweinf.
    Georg August Schweinfurth
    Georg August Schweinfurth was a Baltic German botanist, traveller in East Central Africa and ethnologist....

  • Fadogia andersonii Robyns
  • Fadogia arenicola K.Schum. & K.Krause
  • Fadogia audruana M.Fay, J.-P.Lebrun & Stork
  • Fadogia butayei De Wild.
  • Fadogia caespitosa Robyns
  • Fadogia chlorantha K.Schum.
  • Fadogia chrysantha K.Schum.
  • Fadogia cienkowskii Schweinf.
  • Fadogia cinerascens Robyns
  • Fadogia elskensii De Wild.
  • Fadogia erythrophloea (K.Schum. & K.Krause) Hutch. & Dalziel
  • Fadogia fragrans Robyns
  • Fadogia fuchsioides Schweinf.
    Georg August Schweinfurth
    Georg August Schweinfurth was a Baltic German botanist, traveller in East Central Africa and ethnologist....

     ex Oliv.
  • Fadogia glaberrima Welw. ex Hiern
  • Fadogia gossweileri Robyns
  • Fadogia graminea Wernham
  • Fadogia homblei Robyns
  • Fadogia lactiflora Welw. ex Hiern
  • Fadogia latifolia A.Chev. ex Robyns
  • Fadogia leucophloea Schweinf.
    Georg August Schweinfurth
    Georg August Schweinfurth was a Baltic German botanist, traveller in East Central Africa and ethnologist....

     ex Hiern
  • Fadogia luangwae Verdc.
  • Fadogia oblongolanceolata Robyns
  • Fadogia obscura A.Chev. ex Robyns
  • Fadogia olivacea Robyns
  • Fadogia parvifolia Verdc.
  • Fadogia pobeguinii Pobég.
  • Fadogia punctulata Robyns
  • Fadogia rostrata Robyns
  • Fadogia salictaria S.Moore
  • Fadogia schmitzii Verdc.
  • Fadogia spectabilis Milne-Redh.
  • Fadogia stenophylla Welw. ex Hiern
  • Fadogia tetraquetra K.Schum. & K.Krause
  • Fadogia tomentosa De Wild.
  • Fadogia triphylla Baker
  • Fadogia variifolia Robyns
  • Fadogia verdcourtii Tennant
  • Fadogia verdickii De Wild. & T.Durand
  • Fadogia vollesenii Verdc.


Gousiekte

Fadogia homblei is shown to harbor endophytic Burkholderia
Burkholderia
Burkholderia is a genus of proteobacteria probably best known for its pathogenic members:Burkholderia mallei, responsible for glanders, a disease that occurs mostly in horses and related animals;...

bacteria and is known to cause gousiekte, a cardiotoxicosis of ruminants characterised by heart failure four to eight weeks after ingestion of certain rubiaceous plants.
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