Marsdenia
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Marsdenia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Family
- Apocynaceae
Editorial Note
The species that Bean treated under this genus has been referred to its own monospecific genus Cionura.
Marsdenia, as currently circumscribed, was covered neither by Bean’s Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles nor by New Trees, but species within it are cultivated within our study area. A full account will be provided when funds are available. If you would like to sponsor the account of this genus please write to editor@treesandshrubsonline.org
After the first volume of this revision had gone to press, it was pointed out to us by Mr A. A. Bullock that the species described below should be segregated from Marsdenia as a distinct genus – Cionura Griseb. – in which its correct name is C. erecta (L.) Griseb. Mr Bullock remarks that the species is more closely related to Dregea than to Marsdenia, from which it differs by the cymes being lateral at the leafy nodes (not in narrow elongated thyrsiform panicles) with much larger flowers which have a very short tube and more or less sinuate spreading lobes (against small flowers which are more or less urceolate-campanulate, with the tube much longer than the lobes).
