{{Short description|Genus of plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Secamone elliptica foliage and flower.jpg |image_caption = ''Secamone elliptica'' |taxon = Secamone |authority = R.Br. 1810 |synonyms = *''Genianthus'' {{small|Hook.f.}} *''Rhynchostigma'' {{small|Benth.}} |synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo>{{cite web |title=''Secamone'' R.Br. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30167675-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=10 July 2025}}</ref> }}
'''''Secamone''''' is a genus of plant in family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1810.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2954620#page/332/mode/1up Brown, Robert. 1810. Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae 464] in Latin</ref><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40034607 Tropicos, genus ''Secamone'']</ref> It is widespread across much of Africa, northern Australia, southern Asia, with numerous species endemic to Madagascar.<ref>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=129968 Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 200 <big>鲫鱼藤属</big> ji yu teng shu ''Secamone'' R. Brown, Prodr. 464. 1810. ]</ref><ref>Choux, P. 1931. Asclepiadaceae. Catalogue des Plantes de Madagascar, Asclepiadaceae 1(9): 5–24.</ref><ref>Choux, P. 1926. Le genre Secamone a Madagascar. Mémoires de l'Académie Malgache 1(1): 3–28.</ref><ref>Klackenberg, J. 1992. Taxonomy of Secamone s. lat. (Asclepiadaceae) in the Madagascar Region. Opera Botanica 112: 1–127.</ref><ref>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).</ref>
==Species== 150 species are accepted.<ref name = powo/> {{Columns-list|colwidth=30em| # ''Secamone africana'' {{small|(Oliv.) Bullock}} – C Africa # ''Secamone afzelii'' {{small|(Roem. & Schult.) K.Schum.}} – W + C Africa # ''Secamone alba'' {{small|Jum. & H.Perrier}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone alpini'' {{small|Schult.}} – S + E Africa # ''Secamone andamanica'' {{small|Goel & Vasudeva Rao}} – Andaman Islands # ''Secamone angustifolioides'' {{small|Choux}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone ankarensis'' {{small|(Jum. & H.Perrier) Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone astephana'' {{small|Choux}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone attenuifolia'' {{small|Goyder}} – Tanzania # ''Secamone aurantiaca'' {{small|(C.Y.Wu) Rodda & Klack.}} – Bhutan to China (Yunnan) # ''Secamone auriculata'' {{small|Blume}} – western Jawa, Borneo, northern Queensland (Moa Islands). # ''Secamone australis'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone axillaris'' {{small|Klack.}} – Sulawesi # ''Secamone badia'' {{small|Klack.}} – Borneo (Sarawak) # ''Secamone bemarahensis'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone betamponensis'' {{small|Choux}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone bicolor'' {{small|Decne.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone bicoronata'' {{small|(Klack.) Rodda & Klack.}} – China (southern Yunnan), Myanmar, and Thailand # ''Secamone bifida'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone blumei'' {{small|Decne.}} – Borneo, Java, the Philippines, and Sulawesi # ''Secamone bosseri'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone brachystigma'' {{small|Jum. & H.Perrier}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone brevicoronata'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone brevipes'' {{small|(Benth.) Klack.}} – C Africa # ''Secamone buxifolia'' {{small|Decne.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone capitata'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone castanea'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone celebica'' {{small|Klack.}} – Sulawesi # ''Secamone chouxii'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone clavistyla'' {{small|T.Harris & Goyder}} – southern Tanzania (Rondo Plateau) # ''Secamone cloiselii'' {{small|Choux}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone coronata'' {{small|Klack.}} – Borneo (eastern Kalimantan) # ''Secamone crassifolia'' {{small|(Wight) K.Schum.}} – Peninsular Malaysia # ''Secamone cristata'' {{small|Jum. & H.Perrier}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone cuneifolia'' {{small|Bruyns}} – Socotra # ''Secamone curtisii'' {{small|(King & Gamble) Black.}} # ''Secamone delagoensis'' {{small|Schltr.}} – Mozambique, KwaZulu-Natal # ''Secamone dequairei'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone dewevrei'' {{small|De Wild.}} – C Africa # ''Secamone dictyoneura'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone dilapidans'' {{small|F.Friedmann}} – Réunion, Mauritius # ''Secamone discolor'' {{small|K.Schum. & Vatke}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone dolichorhachys'' {{small|K.Schum.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone drepanoloba'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone ecoronata'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone elegans'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone elliottii'' {{small|K.Schum.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone elliptica'' {{small|R.Br.}} – China, SE Asia, Queensland # ''Secamone emetica'' {{small|(Retz.) R.Br. ex Sm.}} – India # ''Secamone erythradenia'' {{small|K.Schum.}} – C Africa # ''Secamone falcata'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone filiformis'' {{small|(L.f.) J.H.Ross}} – Madagascar, Limpopo # ''Secamone furcata'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone galinae'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone geayi'' {{small|Costantin & Gallaud}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone gerrardii'' {{small|Harv. ex Benth. & Hook.f.}} – South Africa # ''Secamone glaberrima'' {{small|K.Schum.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone glabra'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone glabrescens'' {{small|(M.R.Hend.) Klack.}} – Peninsular Malaysia (Johore) # ''Secamone goyderi'' {{small|Klack.}} – Gabon # ''Secamone gracilis'' {{small|}} – Kenya # ''Secamone grandiflora'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone griffithii'' {{small|(Decne.) Klack.}} – Myanmar, Peninsular Malaysia, and Java # ''Secamone hastata'' {{small|(Klack.) Rodda & Klack.}} – Sikkim to China (Yunnan) and Thailand # ''Secamone horei'' {{small|(Vasudeva Rao) Rodda & Klack.}} – Nicobar Islands # ''Secamone humbertii'' {{small|Choux}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone incarnata'' {{small|(A.Kidyoo) Rodda & Klack.}} – southern Thailand # ''Secamone insularis'' {{small|Miq.}} – Java (Pulu Sangiang) # ''Secamone jongkindii'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone kjellbergii'' {{small|Klack.}} – Sulawesi # ''Secamone kunstleri'' {{small|Klack.}} – western Peninsular Malaysia # ''Secamone laevis'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone lagenifera'' {{small|(Kerr) Klack.}} – Thailand and Cambodia # ''Secamone lankawiensis'' {{small|(King & Gamble) Klack.}} – Peninsular Malaysia (Langkawi) # ''Secamone laurifolia'' {{small|(Hook.f.) K.Schum.}} – western India to Sikkim and Vietnam # ''Secamone laxa'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone lenticellata'' {{small|Klack.}} – Borneo (Sarawak) # ''Secamone leonensis'' {{small|(Scott Elliot) N.E.Br.}} – Sierra Leone # ''Secamone letouzeana'' {{small|(H.Huber) Klack.}} – Gabon # ''Secamone ligustrifolia'' {{small|Decne.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone linearifolia'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone linearis'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone lineata'' {{small|Blume}} – western Jawa, Bismarck Archipelago, and northern Queensland # ''Secamone longituba'' {{small|Klack.}} – Borneo (eastern Kalimantan) # ''Secamone macrophylla'' {{small|Blume}} – western Java # ''Secamone maingayi'' {{small|(Hook.f.) Rodda}} – Peninsular Malaysia, northern Sumatra, and western Borneo # ''Secamone maritima'' {{small|Blume}} – Java, Borneo, the Philippines, and Palau # ''Secamone marsupiata'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone minutiflora'' {{small|Tsiang}} – southern China # ''Secamone minutifolia'' {{small|Choux}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone nervosa'' {{small|}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone oblanceolata'' {{small|(Kerr) Rodda & Klack.}} – Thailand # ''Secamone obovata'' {{small|Decne.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone oleifolia'' {{small|Decne.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone ovatifolia'' {{small|Rodda & Klack.}} – Thailand # ''Secamone pachyphylla'' {{small|}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone pachystigma'' {{small|}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone parviflora'' {{small|}} – SE + S Africa # ''Secamone pedicellaris'' {{small|}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone penangiana'' {{small|(King & Gamble) Klack.}} – Peninsular Malaysia (Penang) # ''Secamone perrieri'' {{small|Choux}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone pinnata'' {{small|Choux}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone polyantha'' {{small|Choux}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone pulchra'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone punctulata'' {{small|Decne.}} – Tanzania, Burundi, Uganda # ''Secamone racemosa'' {{small|(Benth.) Klack.}} – C + EC Africa # ''Secamone rectinervis'' {{small|Schltr.}} – Philippines # ''Secamone reticulata'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone retusa'' {{small|N.E.Br.}} – Tanzania, Kenya # ''Secamone rhopalophora'' {{small|(Backer) Klack.}} – western Java # ''Secamone ridleyi'' {{small|(King & Gamble) Rodda & Klack.}} – northern Peninsular Malaysia (Taiping Hill) # ''Secamone rodriguesiana'' {{small|F.Friedmann}} – Rodrigues Island in Indian Ocean # ''Secamone rubra'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone rufovelutina'' {{small|(King & Gamble) Rodda & Klack.}} – Peninsular Malaysia # ''Secamone schatzii'' {{small|}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone schimperiana'' {{small|}} – Seychelles # ''Secamone schinziana'' {{small|}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone schweinfurthii'' {{small|K.Schum.}} – Ethiopia to South Africa # ''Secamone scortechinii'' {{small|(King & Gamble) Klack.}} – Peninsular Malaysia (Perak) # ''Secamone siamensis'' {{small|(Schltr.) Klack.}} – Thailand and Cambodia # ''Secamone socotrana'' {{small|Balf.f.}} – Socotra # ''Secamone sparsiflora'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone spirei'' {{small|(Costantin) Klack.}} – Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam # ''Secamone stuhlmannii'' {{small|K.Schum.}} – Tanzania, Zaire, Ethiopia # ''Secamone subpeltata'' {{small|(Klack.) Rodda & Klack.}} – Peninsular Malaysia (Fraser's Hill) # ''Secamone sulfurea'' {{small|(Jum. & H.Perrier) Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone sumatrana'' {{small|Klack.}} – western Sumatra # ''Secamone supranervis'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone tenuifolia'' {{small|Decne.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone thailandica'' {{small|Rodda & Klack.}} – southwestern Thailand # ''Secamone thouarsii'' {{small|Decne.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone timorensis'' {{small|Decne.}} – Lesser Sunda Islands, New Guinea, and northern Western Australia # ''Secamone toxocarpoides'' {{small|Choux}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone trichostemon'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone triflora'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone trullata'' {{small|(Klack.) Rodda & Klack.}} – northern Sumatra # ''Secamone truncatiloba'' {{small|Rodda & Klack.}} – Borneo (Kalimantan) # ''Secamone tsingycola'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone tuberculata'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone unciformis'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone uncinata'' {{small|Choux}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone uniflora'' {{small|Decne.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone urceolata'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone urdanetensis'' {{small|Elmer ex Tsiang}} – Philippines (Mindanao) # ''Secamone valvata'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone varia'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone variicolor'' {{small|Klack.}} – Sulawesi # ''Secamone venosa'' {{small|Klack.}} – Madagascar # ''Secamone vietnamensis'' {{small|Rodda & Klack.}} – Vietnam # ''Secamone volubilis'' {{small|(Lam.) Marais}} – Réunion, Mauritius }}
;formerly included<ref name=u>[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Secamone The Plant List, genus ''Secamone'']</ref> moved to other genera ''(Metastelma and Toxocarpus)'' # ''S. occidentalis'' now ''Metastelma occidentale'' # ''S. villosa'' now ''Toxocarpus villosus'' # ''S. wightiana'' now ''Toxocarpus wightianus''
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Category:Secamone Category:Apocynaceae genera Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Category:Taxa described in 1810 Category:Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)