Wrightia

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Flower-01-KayEss-1.jpeg |image_caption = ''Wrightia antidysenterica'' |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Wrightia |authority = R.Br. |synonyms = *''Balfouria'' R.Br. *''Piaggiaea'' Chiov. *''Scleranthera'' Pichon *''Walidda'' (A.DC.) Pichon |synonyms_ref = <ref name=POWO>{{cite web |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A60443770-2 |title=Plants of the World Online |accessdate=6 September 2023}}</ref> |}}

'''''Wrightia''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1810. It native to tropical Africa, China, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Papuasia, and Australia.<ref name=POWO/> The species are all small trees or shrubs.<ref>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=134988 Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 174 <big>倒吊笔属</big> dao diao bi shu ''Wrightia'' R. Brown, Mem. Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1: 73. 1811.]</ref>

The genus was named for William Wright (1735–1819), Scottish physician and botanist, by Robert Brown.

''Wrightia antidysenterica'' has long been known in Indian Ayurvedic tradition, and is called "kuţaja" in Sanskrit.

==Species== ''Plants of the World Online''<ref name=POWO/> includes: {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| # ''Wrightia angustifolia'' Thwaites – Sri Lanka # ''Wrightia annamensis'' Eberh. & Dubard – S China, Cambodia, Vietnam # ''Wrightia antidysenterica'' (L.) R.Br. – Sri Lanka # ''Wrightia arborea'' (Dennst.) Mabb. – S China, India, Sri Lanka, Himalayas, Indochina # ''Wrightia calcicola'' D.J.Middleton – Thailand # ''Wrightia candollei'' S.Vidal – Philippines # ''Wrightia coccinea'' (Roxb. ex Hornem.) Sims – S China, Himalayas, Indochina # ''Wrightia collettii'' Ngan – Myanmar # ''Wrightia demartiniana'' Chiov. – Western Australia # ''Wrightia dolichocarpa'' Bahadur & Bennet – Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya # ''Wrightia dubia'' (Sims) Spreng. – W India # ''Wrightia flavidorosea'' Trimen – Indochina, W Malaysia # ''Wrightia hanleyi'' Elmer – Sri Lanka but extinct # ''Wrightia indica'' Ngan – Palawan # ''Wrightia karaketii'' D.J.Middleton – S India # ''Wrightia kwangtungensis'' Tsiang – Thailand # ''Wrightia laevis'' Hook.f. – S China, SE Asia, Papuasia, Queensland # ''Wrightia lanceolata'' Kerr – S Thailand # ''Wrightia lecomtei'' Pit. – Cambodia, Vietnam # ''Wrightia natalensis'' Stapf -southern Africa # ''Wrightia novobritannica'' (Ngan) D.J.Middleton – New Britain # ''Wrightia palawanensis'' D.J.Middleton – Palawan # ''Wrightia poomae'' D.J.Middleton – Thailand # ''Wrightia puberula'' (Thwaites) Ngan – Sri Lanka but extinct # ''Wrightia pubescens'' R.Br. – S China, SE Asia, Papuasia, N Australia # ''Wrightia religiosa'' (Teijsm. & Binn.) Benth. ex Kurz – Guangdong, Indochina, W Malaysia # ''Wrightia saligna'' (R.Br.) F.Muell. ex Benth. – N Australia # ''Wrightia siamensis'' D.J.Middleton – Thailand # ''Wrightia sikkimensis'' Gamble – S China, E Himalayas, Vietnam # ''Wrightia sirikitiae'' D.J.Middleton & Santisuk – Thailand # ''Wrightia tinctoria'' (Roxb.) R.Br. – India, Nepal, Myanmar, Vietnam, Timor and Australia # ''Wrightia tokiae'' D.J.Middleton – Thailand # ''Wrightia vietnamensis'' Hazell & D.J.Middleton<ref>Hazell EC, Middleton DJ (2023) ''Kew Bull.'' 78(4)</ref> – Vietnam # ''Wrightia viridiflora'' Kerr – Thailand }}

;formerly included<ref name=POWO/> {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| # ''Wrightia afzelii'', syn of ''Pleioceras afzelii'' # ''Wrightia bacelliana'', syn of ''Melodinus acutiflorus'' # ''Wrightia parviflora'', syn of ''Pleioceras barteri'' # ''Wrightia piscidia'', syn of ''Melodinus cochinchinensis'' # ''Wrightia stuhlmannii'', syn of ''Alafia lucida'' }}

==References== {{Reflist}}

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Category:Wrightia Category:Apocynaceae genera