Tylophora is a genus of climbing plant

Plant

Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...

 or vine. It consists of about 60 species from tropical and subtropical Asia, Africa, and Australia, most of which are perennial liana

Liana

A liana is any of various long-stemmed, woody vines that are rooted in the soil at ground level and use trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the canopy to get access to well-lit areas of the forest. Lianas are especially characteristic of tropical moist deciduous...

s. The name is derived from the Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th–6th centuries BC, , c. 5th–4th centuries BC , and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD of ancient Greece and the ancient world; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek...

 tylos/τυλος "knot", and phoros/φορος "bearing". The genus was originally erected by Robert Brown

Robert Brown (botanist)

Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope...

 for four species he described in Australia. It was placed in the Asclepiadaceae

Asclepiadaceae

According to APG II, the Asclepiadaceae is a former plant family now treated as a subfamily in the Apocynaceae...

. which has now been sunk into Apocynaceae

Apocynaceae

The Apocynaceae or dogbane family is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, and lianas.Many species are tall trees found in tropical rainforests, and most are from the tropics and subtropics, but some grow in tropical dry, xeric environments. There are also perennial herbs...

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Species include:

• Tylophora arenicola
• Tylophora astephanoides
• Tylophora asthmatica
• Tylophora augustiniana
• Tylophora barbata
  Tylophora barbata
  Tylophora barbata, the Bearded Tylophora is a small vine in the dogbane family. A common plant found south of Bulahdelah, New South Wales. The habitat is rainforest and moist eucalyptus forests in south eastern Australia. Not often seen in flower, but flowers are dark red, around 7 mm long on...
  
  
• Tylophora brownii
• Tylophora cameroonica
  Tylophora cameroonica
  Tylophora cameroonica is a species of plant in the Asclepiadaceae family. It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:...
  
  
• Tylophora chingtungensis
• Tylophora cycleoides
• Tylophora flexuosa
• Tylophora floribunda
• Tylophora forrestii
• Tylophora glabra
• Tylophora gracilenta
• Tylophora henryi
• Tylophora hui
• Tylophora indica
• Tylophora insulana
• Tylophora kerrii
• Tylophora koi
• Tylophora longifolia
• Tylophora membranacea
• Tylophora nana
• Tylophora oligophylla
• Tylophora oshimae
• Tylophora ovata
• Tylophora picta
• Tylophora rockii
• Tylophora rotundifolia
• Tylophora secamonoides
• Tylophora silvestris
• Tylophora tengii
• Tylophora tsiangii
• Tylophora tuberculata
• Tylophora uncinata
• Tylophora urceolata
  Tylophora urceolata
  Tylophora urceolata is a species of plant in the Asclepiadaceae family. It is found in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Tanzania. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:...
  
  
• Tylophora yunnanensis