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Oxypetalum

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Oxypetalum

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Oxypetalum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described with this name in 1810. The genus is native to South America.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderGentianales
  5. FamilyApocynaceae
Observations recorded31,702

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
943
With media
132
Family
Apocynaceae
Collections
INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), UFRGS, UEL, GH, MO, F
Recorded in
Brasil, Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Paraguay

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Encyclopedic overview

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Oxypetalum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described with this name in 1810. The genus is native to South America.

Oxypetalum coeruleum is cultivated as an ornamental.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oxypetalum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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