Elytropus Explained

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

Notes and References

1. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=66847 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.