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Apocynoideae
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. 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.
9 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first
Apocyneae
tribeApocyneae
Nerieae
tribeNerieae
Echiteae
tribeEchiteae
Mesechiteae
tribeMesechiteae
Malouetieae
tribeMalouetieae
Wrightieae
tribeWrightieae
Odontadenieae
tribeOdontadenieae
Rhabdadenieae
tribeRhabdadenieae
Baisseeae
tribeBaisseeae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 427366.