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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Rubiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Ixoroideae |
| Tribe: | Coffeeae |
| Genus: | Belonophora Hook.f. |
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| Belonophora coffeoides Hook.f. | |
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Belonophora is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in Tropical Africa from Senegal east to Sudan and south to Angola. It was described by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1873.
Species
- Belonophora coffeoides Hook.f.
- Belonophora coffeoides subsp. coffeoides - São Tomé (not seen since 1861, possibly extinct)
- Belonophora coffeoides subsp. hypoglauca (Welw. ex Hiern) S.E.Dawson & Cheek - Benin, Ghana, Guinée, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, D.R.Congo, Chad, Sudan, Uganda, Angola, Zambia
- Belonophora coriacea Hoyle - Nigeria, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Congo-Brazzaville, D.R.Congo
- Belonophora ongensis S.E.Dawson & Cheek - Cameroon, Gabon
- Belonophora talbotii (Wernham) Keay - Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon
- Belonophora wernhamii Hutch. & Dalziel - Nigeria, Cameroon
References
- POWO (2022). "Plants of the World Online". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Archived from the original on March 22, 2017. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
- Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1873. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 12, t 1127, Belonophora coffeoides
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