Pectinaria is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1819.Haworth, Adrian Hardy. 1819. Supplementum plantarum succulentarum :sistens plantas novas vel nuper introductas, sive omissas, in Synopse plantarum succulentarum : cum observationibus variis anglicanis 14 in LatinTropicos genus Pectinaria The entire genus is endemic to South Africa.Gibbs Russell, G. E., W. G. M. Welman, E. Retief, K. L. Immelman, G. Germishuizen, B. J. Pienaar, M. Van Wyk & A. Nicholas. 1987. List of species of southern African plants. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa 2(1–2): 1–152(pt. 1), 1–270(pt. 2).
SpeciesThe Plant List, genus Pectinaria
formerly included Pectinaria exasperata now Stapeliopsis exasperata
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