Pentasacme Wall. ex Wight
, Contr. Bot. India [Wight] 60 (1834).- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:3578-1
- Publication
- Contributions to the Botany of India
- Collation
- 60
- Date of Publication
- Dec 1834
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Asclepiadaceae
Original Data
- Remarks
- Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 769. {correction added when editing for database}
Nomenclatural Notes
as 'Pentasachme'
Remarks
The second part of the generic name is derived from the Greek word 'acme'. G.Don, Gen. Hist. 4: 159. 1837 corrected the generic name to Pentasacme.