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Stipecoma

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Stipecoma
Green leaves of Stipecoma peltigera plant
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Apocynoideae
Tribe: Odontadenieae
Genus: Stipecoma
Müll.Arg.
Species:
S. peltigera
Binomial name
Stipecoma peltigera
(Stadelm.) Müll.Arg.
Synonyms[1]
  • Echites peltigerus Stadelm.
  • Echites tropaeolifolius A.DC.

Stipecoma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1860. It contains only one known species, Stipecoma peltigera, native to Brazil and Bolivia.[1][2][3]

formerly included in the genus[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Zappi, D.C. & al. (2003). Lista das plantas vasculares de Catoles. Boletim de Botânica da Universidade de São Paulo 21(2): 345-398.
  3. ^ Morales, J.F. (2005). Estudios en las Apocynaceae Neotropicales XX: monogrfía del género Peltastes (Apocynoideae, Echiteae), con una sinopsis de Stipecoma (Apocynoideae, Echiteae). Candollea 60: 289-334.