Brachytome is a genus of 8 species of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1871.Joseph Dalton Hooker. 1871. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 11: 70, pl. 1088, Brachytome wallichii. It occurs in mainland Southeast Asia from Bangladesh, east to south central China and south to Peninsular Malaysia.
Species Brachytome hainanensis C.Y.Wu ex W.C.Chen - Hainan, Vietnam Brachytome hirtella Hu - Tibet, Yunnan, Vietnam Brachytome kachinensis Govaerts - Myanmar (Burma) Brachytome pitardii Tirveng. - Vietnam Brachytome russellii Deb & M.G.Gangop. - Myanmar (Burma) Brachytome scortechinii King & Gamble - Laos, Thailand, Malaysia Brachytome wallichiii Hook.f. - Yunnan, Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam Brachytome wardii C.E.C.Fisch. - Myanmar (Burma)
References
External links Brachytome in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae Brachytome wallichii picture