Kohautia

Kohautia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. They are native to tropical areas of Asia, Africa, and Madagascar.^[2][3] Thirty-one species are known.^[3] The type species for the genus is Kohautia senegalensis.^[4]

Kohautia
Kohautia aspera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Rubiaceae
Genus:	Kohautia Chamisso & Schlechtendal (1829), nom. cons.
Type species
Kohautia senegalensis Chamisso & Schlechtendal
Species
See text
Synonyms[1]
Duvaucellia Bowdich (1825), nom. rej.

Kohautia was named by Adelbert von Chamisso and Diederich von Schlechtendal in 1829.^[5] This generic name honors Franz Kohaut (d. 1822), a plant collector who worked in West Africa for the botanist Franz Sieber (1789-1844).^[6]

Species

The following species are accepted in the genus Kohautia:^[1]

• Kohautia amatymbica Eckl. & Zeyh.
• Kohautia angolensis Bremek.
• Kohautia attenuata (Willd.) I.M.Turner
• Kohautia australiensis Halford
• Kohautia azurea (Dinter & K.Krause) Bremek.
• Kohautia caespitosa Schnizl.
• Kohautia coccinea Royle
• Kohautia confusa (Hutch. & Dalziel) Bremek.
• Kohautia cynanchica DC.
• Kohautia dolichostyla Bremek.
• Kohautia euryantha Bremek.
• Kohautia gracilis (Wall.) DC.
• Kohautia gracillima Bremek.
• Kohautia grandiflora DC.
• Kohautia huillensis Bremek.
• Kohautia kimuenzae (De Wild.) Bremek.
• Kohautia microflora D.Mantell
• Kohautia nagporensis (Brace ex Haines) Santapau & Merchant
• Kohautia pappii Bremek.
• Kohautia platyphylla (K.Schum.) Bremek.
• Kohautia pleiocaulis Bremek.
• Kohautia quartiniana (A.Rich.) Bremek.
• Kohautia ramosissima Bremek.
• Kohautia retrorsa (Boiss.) Bremek.
• Kohautia socotrana Bremek.
• Kohautia subverticillata (K.Schum.) Mantell
• Kohautia tenuis (Bowdich) Mabb.