strophanthus glabre du Gabon vs Cerf de Timor

Strophanthus gratus compared with Rusa timorensis

Key Differences

• strophanthus glabre du Gabon is Not Evaluated while Cerf de Timor is Vulnerable.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	strophanthus glabre du Gabon	Cerf de Timor
Kingdom	Plantae (plante)	Animalia (animal)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (mammifères)
Order	Gentianales (Gentianales)	Artiodactyla (Even-toed Ungulates)
Family	Apocynaceae	Cervidae (Deer)
Genus	Strophanthus	Rusa
Species	Strophanthus gratus	Rusa timorensis

Conservation Status

strophanthus glabre du Gabon

NE — Not Evaluated

Cerf de Timor

VU — Vulnerable

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	strophanthus glabre du Gabon	Cerf de Timor
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

strophanthus glabre du Gabon

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

Range

Distributed across Guinea and India.

Cerf de Timor

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including temperate broadleaf and mixed forests, tundra, and tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests spanning the Australasia and Afrotropic and Oceanian realms.

Range

Distributed across Mauritius, New Zealand, and Norway. Currently classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, this species faces significant conservation challenges across its range.

strophanthus glabre du Gabon

Climbing Oleander, Strophanthus gratus, is a woody liana or climbing shrub in the family Apocynaceae native to tropical West and Central Africa, occurring in rainforest margins, gallery forest, and secondary forest from Senegal to Uganda. The species belongs to a genus celebrated for the cardiac glycosides and arrow poisons produced in the seeds; Strophanthus species were the source of the drug ouabain (g-strophanthin), historically used in cardiac medicine and by African hunters as an arrow poison applied to hunting darts. Climbing Oleander produces large, funnel-shaped flowers with white to pale pink twisted petals and a fringe of elongated lobes at the corolla mouth, borne in terminal cymes that are highly ornamental. The name 'climbing oleander' refers to the superficial resemblance of the flowers to the related Mediterranean oleander (Nerium oleander). The species climbs by twining its stems around supporting vegetation and is occasionally cultivated as an ornamental in tropical gardens. The seeds contain strophanthin and other potent glycosides that affect the cardiac system; all parts of the plant are toxic if ingested. The species is not currently assessed as threatened within its native tropical African range.