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Adenia
Adenia is a genus of flowering plants in the passionflower family Passifloraceae. It contains about 100 species distributed in the Old World tropics and subtropics. The centers of diversity are in Madagascar, eastern and western tropical Africa, and Southeast Asia. The genus name Adenia comes from "aden", reported as the Arabic name for the plant by Peter Forsskål, the author of the genus.
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first
snake-climber
speciesAdenia gummifera
Wild Granadilla
speciesAdenia digitata
Blueleaf Elephantfoot
speciesAdenia glauca
Elephant's foot
speciesAdenia pechuelii
Adenia cordifolia
speciesAdenia cordifolia
Greenstem
speciesAdenia fruticosa
Adenia heterophylla
speciesAdenia heterophylla
Adenia olaboensis
speciesAdenia olaboensis
Spiny Elephantfoot
speciesAdenia spinosa
Adenia hondala
speciesAdenia hondala
Adenia macrophylla
speciesAdenia macrophylla
Adenia hastata
speciesAdenia hastata
Adenia firingalavensis
speciesAdenia firingalavensis
Adenia repanda
speciesAdenia repanda
Adenia cissampeloides
speciesAdenia cissampeloides
Adenia venenata
speciesAdenia venenata
Adenia densiflora
speciesAdenia densiflora
Adenia globosa
speciesAdenia globosa
Adenia epigea
speciesAdenia epigea
Adenia isaloensis
speciesAdenia isaloensis
Adenia perrieri
speciesAdenia perrieri
Natal Elephantroot
speciesAdenia natalensis
Adenia penangiana
speciesAdenia penangiana
Adenia subsessilifolia
speciesAdenia subsessilifolia
Adenia monadelpha
speciesAdenia monadelpha
Adenia elegans
speciesAdenia elegans
Adenia wilmsii
speciesAdenia wilmsii
Adenia volkensii
speciesAdenia volkensii
Adenia lobata
speciesAdenia lobata
Adenia rumicifolia
speciesAdenia rumicifolia
Adenia viridiflora
speciesAdenia viridiflora
Adenia metamorpha
speciesAdenia metamorpha
Adenia trilobata
speciesAdenia trilobata
Adenia stylosa
speciesAdenia stylosa
Adenia karibaensis
speciesAdenia karibaensis
Adenia mannii
speciesAdenia mannii
Adenia reticulata
speciesAdenia reticulata
Adenia erecta
speciesAdenia erecta
Adenia gracilis
speciesAdenia gracilis
Adenia kinabaluensis
speciesAdenia kinabaluensis
Adenia stenodactyla
speciesAdenia stenodactyla
Adenia barthelatii
speciesAdenia barthelatii
Adenia ballyi
speciesAdenia ballyi
Adenia cardiophylla
speciesAdenia cardiophylla
Adenia dinklagei
speciesAdenia dinklagei
Adenia ellenbeckii
speciesAdenia ellenbeckii
Adenia goetzei
speciesAdenia goetzei
Adenia panduriformis
speciesAdenia panduriformis
Adenia pinnatisecta
speciesAdenia pinnatisecta
Adenia poggei
speciesAdenia poggei
Adenia refracta
speciesAdenia refracta
Adenia stricta
speciesAdenia stricta
Adenia pyromorpha
speciesAdenia pyromorpha
Adenia lapiazicola
speciesAdenia lapiazicola
Adenia cladosepala
speciesAdenia cladosepala
Adenia bequaertii
speciesAdenia bequaertii
Adenia keramanthus
speciesAdenia keramanthus
Adenia boivinii
speciesAdenia boivinii
Adenia dolichosiphon
speciesAdenia dolichosiphon
Adenia kigogoensis
speciesAdenia kigogoensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 132582.