{{Short description|Genus of plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Starr 060721-8420 Telosma cordata.jpg |image_caption = ''Telosma cordata'' |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Telosma |authority = Coville, 1905 }}
'''''Telosma''''' is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described in 1905.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/369490#page/452/mode/1up Coville, Frederick Vernon. 1905. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 9: 384–385]</ref> It is native to Africa, and Asia.<ref>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=132420 Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 241 <big>夜来香属</big> ye lai xiang shu ''Telosma'' Coville, Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 9: 384. 1905. ]</ref><ref>Choux, P. 1914. Etudes biologiques sur les Asclepiadacees. Annales de l'Institut Botanico-Geologique Colonial de Marseille, sér. 3, 2: 209–464</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== ;Accepted species<ref name=j>[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Telosma The Plant List, ''Telosma'']</ref> {{Columns-list|colwidth=30em| # ''Telosma accedens'' <small>(Blume) Backer</small> - Java # ''Telosma africana'' <small>(N.E.Br.) N.E.Br.</small> - South Africa, Madagascar # ''Telosma angustiloba'' <small>(Warb.) Merr.</small> - Cagayan Province in Philippines # ''Telosma celebica'' <small>(Warb.) M.A. Rahman & Wilcock</small> - Sulawesi # ''Telosma cordata'' <small>(Burm. f.) Merr.</small> - S China, Indian Subcontinent, Vietnam; naturalized in Europe, North + South America # ''Telosma pallida'' <small>(Roxb.) W. G. Craib</small> - Taiwan, Indochina, Indian Subcontinent # ''Telosma procumbens'' <small>(Blanco) Merr.</small> - Philippines, Vietnam, southeastern China # ''Telosma puberula'' <small>(Miq.) Kerr</small> - Thailand # ''Telosma unyorensis'' <small>S. Moore</small> - Uganda }}
;formerly included<ref name=j/> ''Telosma tomentosa'', syn of ''Pergularia tomentosa''
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==External links== {{Wikispecies|Telosma}}
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Category:Asclepiadoideae Category:Apocynaceae genera