Elytropus

Elytropus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Family:	Apocynaceae
Genus:	Elytropus Müll.Arg.
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

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

References

1 2 3 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.

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