logania family
Loganiaceae
The Loganiaceae are a family of flowering plants classified in order Gentianales. The family includes up to 13 genera, distributed around the world's tropics. There are not any great morphological characteristics to distinguish these taxa from others in the order Gentianales.
Many members of the Loganiaceae are extremely poisonous, causing death by convulsion. Poisonous properties are largely due to alkaloids such as those found in Strychnos. Glycosides are also present as loganin in Strychnos.
16 branches of this family, most-observed first
Pinkroots
genusSpigelia
strychnos
genusStrychnos
Geniostoma
genusGeniostoma
hornpods
genusMitreola
Mitrasacme
genusMitrasacme
Logania
genusLogania
Orianthera
genusOrianthera
Gardneria
genusGardneria
Phyllangium
genusPhyllangium
Antonia
genusAntonia
Schizacme
genusSchizacme
Neuburgia
genusNeuburgia
Usteria
genusUsteria
Bonyunia
genusBonyunia
Norrisia
genusNorrisia
Adelphacme
genusAdelphacme
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 71557.