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Apocynoideae
Subfamily of flowering plants From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Apocynoideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family Apocynaceae (order Gentianales), also called the 'dogbane' or milkweed family, containing about 860 species across 78 genera. Several are of pharmacological interest; Strophanthus has furnished highly effective arrow poisons, due to their cardiac glycoside content.[3] Apocynoideae also includes many popular landscaping and ornamental species, one of the best-known, and most infamous, being the oleander (Nerium oleander); the subfamily also contains remarkable pachycaul genera like Adenium and Pachypodium.




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- Alafia caudata subsp. latiloba
- Chonemorpha fragrans side view of flowers
- Cycladenia humilis var. jonesii
- Echites panduratus (harvested, edible, hairy flowers)
- Funtumia elastica, former rubber source
- Holarrhena pubescens (detail)
- Kibatalia blancoi
- Mascarenhasia arborescens, former rubber source
- Mesechites trifida
- Pachypodium lamerei, a pachycaul species
- Pachypodium lamerei, close-up
- Parsonsia diaphanophleba, single flower
- Prestonia coalita
- Rhabdadenia madida
- Stephanostema stenocarpa (flowers v. small relative to foliage)
- Temnadenia odorifera
- Urceola elastica
- Vallaris glabra
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