{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image =Adenocline pauciflora.jpeg |image_caption = ''Adenocline pauciflora'' |display_parents = 3 |taxon = Adenocline |authority = Turcz. |synonyms_ref = <ref name=j/> |synonyms= ''Diplostylis'' <small>Sond.</small> }}
'''''Adenocline''''' is a genus of plants, under the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1843.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44106726#page/61/mode/1up Turczaninow, Nicolai Stepanowitsch. 1843. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 16: 59-61] in Latin</ref><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40032436 Tropicos, ''Adenocline'' Turcz.]</ref> It is native to southern Africa (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi).<ref name=j>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=3059 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref><ref>Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.</ref>
;Species<ref name=j/> # ''Adenocline acuta'' <small>(Thunb.) Baill.</small> - Malawi, Zimbabwe, Cape Province # ''Adenocline pauciflora'' <small>Turcz.</small> - KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Province # ''Adenocline violifolia'' <small>(Kunze) Prain</small> - Cape Province
;Formerly included<ref name=j/> moved to ''Leidesia'' *''A. procumbens - Leidesia procumbens''
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Category:Adenoclineae Category:Flora of Southern Africa Category:Euphorbiaceae genera Category:Taxa named by Nikolai Turczaninow
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