Kohautia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. They are native to tropical areas of Asia, Africa, and Madagascar.David J. Mabberley. 2008. Mabberley's Plant-Book third edition (2008). Cambridge University Press: UK. Inge Groeninckx, Steven Dessein, Helga Ochoterena, Claes Persson, Timothy J. Motley, Jesper Kårehed, Birgitta Bremer, Suzy Huysmans, and Erik Smets. 2009. "Phylogeny of the herbaceous tribe Spermacoceae (Rubiaceae) based on plastid DNA data". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 96(1):109-132. Thirty-one species are known. The type species for the genus is Kohautia senegalensis.Kohautia In: Index Nominum Genericorum. In: Regnum Vegetabile (see External links below).
Kohautia was named by Adelbert von Chamisso and Diederich von Schlechtendal in 1829.Adelbert von Chamisso and Diederich von Schlechtendal. 1829. Linnaea 4:157. (see External links below) This generic name honors Franz Kohaut (d. 1822), a plant collector who worked in West Africa for the botanist Franz Sieber (1789-1844).Umberto Quattrocchi. 2000. CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names volume II. CRC Press: Boca Raton; New York; Washington, DC;, USA. London, UK. .
Species The following species are accepted in the genus Kohautia:
Kohautia amatymbica Kohautia angolensis Kohautia attenuata Kohautia australiensis Kohautia azurea Kohautia caespitosa Kohautia coccinea Kohautia confusa Kohautia cynanchica Kohautia dolichostyla Kohautia euryantha Kohautia gracilis Kohautia gracillima Kohautia grandiflora Kohautia huillensis Kohautia kimuenzae Kohautia microflora Kohautia nagporensis Kohautia pappii Kohautia platyphylla Kohautia pleiocaulis Kohautia quartiniana Kohautia ramosissima Kohautia retrorsa Kohautia socotrana Kohautia subverticillata Kohautia tenuis
References
External links Kohautia In: Linnaea, volume 4 At: Linnaea At: Titles At: Botanicus