Elytropus

Elytropus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1860. It contains only one known species, Elytropus chilensis, native to Chile and to Rio Negro Province in Argentina.[1][2]

formerly included[1]
  • Elytropus pubescens (Wall. ex G.Don) Miers = Holarrhena pubescens Wall. ex G.Don
  • Elytropus spectabilis (Stadelm.) Miers = Macropharynx spectabilis (Stadelm.) Woodson

Elytropus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Apocynoideae
Tribe: Odontadenieae
Genus: Elytropus
Müll.Arg.
Species:
E. chilensis
Binomial name
Elytropus chilensis
(A.DC.) Müll.Arg.
Synonyms[1]
  • Echites chilensis A.DC.
  • Echites pubescens Hook. & Arn. 1830 not Willd. ex Roem. & Schult. 1819 nor Buch.-Ham. 1822
  • Echites ptarmicus Poepp.
  • Echites heterophyllus Miq. 1853 not J.F. Gmel. 1791
  • Elytropus ptarmica (Poepp.) Miers
  • Vinca sternutetoria Poepp. ex Reiche

References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Morales, J.F. (2013). Sinopsis de las Apocynaceae s.str. (Apocynoideae y Rauvolfioideae) de Chile. Darwiniana , n.s., 1: 39-45.
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