{{Short description|Genus of plants}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Holarrhena pubescens 09.JPG | image_caption = ''Holarrhena pubescens'' | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Holarrhena | authority = R.Br.<ref name=WCSP1>{{Citation |contribution=Holarrhena|title=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=99592 |accessdate=17 August 2013}}</ref> | synonyms = * ''Physetobasis'' <small>Hassk.</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref>{{cite web |url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=99592 |title=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, ''Holarrhena'', synonyms |accessdate=May 19, 2014}}</ref> }}
'''''Holarrhena''''' is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1810. It is native to tropical and southern Africa as well as south, east, and southeast Asia.<ref name=WCSP1/> {{As of|2013|August}} the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families recognises 5 species:<ref name=WCSP2>Search for "Holarrhena", {{Citation |title=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/ |accessdate=17 August 2013 }}</ref>
;Species<ref name=WCSP1/> * ''Holarrhena congolensis'' <small>Stapf</small> - Zaïre * ''Holarrhena curtisii'' <small>King & Gamble</small> - Indochina * ''Holarrhena floribunda'' <small>(G.Don) T.Durand & Schinz</small> - western + central Africa * ''Holarrhena mitis'' <small>(Vahl) R.Br. ex Roem. & Schult.</small> - Sri Lanka * ''Holarrhena pubescens'' <small>Wall.</small> - eastern, southern + central Africa; Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, parts of China A new species of Holarrhena from the Palakkad gap of Western Ghats has been reported and named as ''Holarrhena parishadii''<ref>https://phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.664.4.6</ref> in the year 2024. ==References== {{Commons}} {{Wikispecies}} {{Reflist}}
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Category:Holarrhena Category:Apocynaceae genera
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