Elytropus

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
	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;

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]

Elytropus pubescens (Wall. ex G.Don) Miers = Holarrhena pubescens Wall. ex G.Don
Elytropus spectabilis (Stadelm.) Miers = Macropharynx spectabilis (Stadelm.) Woodson

References edit

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