Cordylostigma

Cordylostigma is a genus in the Rubiaceae. The name was coined in 2010 to contain 9 species formerly belonging to the related genus Kohautia.^[1] The nine species are native to tropical and southern Africa from Guinea to Somalia to South Africa, as well as Madagascar, Comoros, and Réunion.^[2]

Cordylostigma
Cordylostigma virgatum in South Africa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Rubiaceae
Subfamily:	Rubioideae
Tribe:	Spermacoceae
Genus:	Cordylostigma Groeninckx & Dessein
Type species
Kohautia longifolia Klotzsch

Species

• Cordylostigma amboense (Schinz) Groeninckx & Dessein
• Cordylostigma cicendioides (K.Schum.) Groeninckx & Dessein
• Cordylostigma cuspidatum (K.Schum.) Groeninckx & Dessein
• Cordylostigma longifolium (Klotzsch) Groeninckx & Dessein
• Cordylostigma microcala (Bremek.) Groeninckx & Dessein
• Cordylostigma obtusilobum (Hiern) Groeninckx & Dessein
• Cordylostigma prolixipes (S.Moore) Groeninckx & Dessein
• Cordylostigma stellarioides (Hiern) Groeninckx & Dessein
• Cordylostigma virgatum (Willd.) Groeninckx & Dessein