Aspidosperma

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

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|image_caption = Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco

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|taxon = Aspidosperma

|authority = Mart. & Zucc.

|synonyms =

• Coutinia Vell.
• Cufodontia Woodson
• Macaglia Rich. ex Vahl, rejected name
• Paralyxia Baill.
• Peltospermum DC.
• Thyroma Miers

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File:Aspidosperma carapanauba MHNT.BOT.2018.6.2.jpg]]

Aspidosperma is a genus of flowering plant in the Dogbane family (Apocynaceae), first described as a genus in 1824. It is native to South America, Central America, southern Mexico, and the West Indies.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=17223 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][http://florabrasiliensis.cria.org.br/search?taxon_id=30 Flora Brasiliensis: Aspidosperma] {{in lang|pt}} One Central American species of this genus under the name "Aspidosperma cruenta" (not accepted by POWO) has leaves which have lived for as long as fourteen years on Barro Colorado Island, Panama{{cite book | last1= Ziegler | first1= Christian | last2= Leigh Jr | first2=Egbert Giles | date= 2002 | title= A Magic Web | location= New York | publisher= Oxford Univ. Press | page= 121 | ISBN= 0-19-514328-0 }} and exceeded among dicots only by Australian Sassafras (Doryphora sassafras).

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1. Aspidosperma album - Guianas, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Brazil
2. Aspidosperma araracanga - Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, NW Brazil
3. Aspidosperma auriculatum - Pará
4. Aspidosperma australe - Brazil, NE Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia
5. Aspidosperma camporum - S Brazil
6. Aspidosperma capitatum - Colombia, Peru
7. Aspidosperma carapanauba - Brazil, Peru, French Guiana
8. Aspidosperma cuspa - Panama, Hispaniola, south to Paraguay
9. Aspidosperma cylindrocarpon - Brazil, Peru, Paraguay, Bolivia
10. Aspidosperma darienense - Panama, N South America
11. Aspidosperma decussatum - Bolívar in Venezuela
12. Aspidosperma desmanthum - from Chiapas to Brazil
13. Aspidosperma discolor - Brazil
14. Aspidosperma dispermum - Serra do Espinhaço in Brazil
15. Aspidosperma eburneum - Brazil
16. Aspidosperma eteanum - NW Brazil
17. Aspidosperma excelsum - from Costa Rica to NW Brazil
18. Aspidosperma fendleri - Venezuela, Guyana
19. Aspidosperma formosanum - Goiás
20. Aspidosperma gehrtii - São Paulo
21. Aspidosperma glaucum - Amazonas in Venezuela
22. Aspidosperma helstonei - Suriname, French Guiana
23. Aspidosperma illustre - E Brazil
24. Aspidosperma inundatum - Amazonas + Pará in Brazil
25. Aspidosperma leucocymosum - Amazonas in Venezuela, Amazonas in Brazil
26. Aspidosperma limae - Pernambuco
27. Aspidosperma macrocarpon - Venezuela, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, Brazil
28. Aspidosperma macrophyllum - Guyana, French Guiana
29. Aspidosperma megalocarpon - from Veracruz to N Brazil
30. Aspidosperma megaphyllum - Acre, NE Peru
31. Aspidosperma multiflorum - Brazil, Bolivia
32. Aspidosperma myristicifolia - Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Acre
33. Aspidosperma nanum - Mato Grosso
34. Aspidosperma neblinae - Amazonas in Venezuela
35. Aspidosperma nemorale - S Brazil
36. Aspidosperma nigricans - Paraíba
37. Aspidosperma nobile - Brazil, Bolivia
38. Aspidosperma oblongum - Venezuela, Guianas
39. Aspidosperma obscurinervium - Amazonas in Brazil
40. Aspidosperma olivaceum - S Brazil
41. Aspidosperma pachypterum - Amazonas in Venezuela
42. Aspidosperma parvifolium - Brazil
43. Aspidosperma pichonianum - Bolívar in Venezuela
44. Aspidosperma polyneuron - from Colombia to Paraguay
45. Aspidosperma pyricollum Brazil
46. Aspidosperma pyrifolium - Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay
47. Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco - Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay
48. Aspidosperma ramiflorum - Brazil, Bolivia
49. Aspidosperma reductum - Paraguay
50. Aspidosperma resonans - Bolivia
51. Aspidosperma riedelii - Brazil, Paraguay
52. Aspidosperma rigidum - from Costa Rica to NW Brazil
53. Aspidosperma salgadense - Pará
54. Aspidosperma sandwithianum Markgr. - Guianas
55. Aspidosperma schultesii - Venezuela, Peru, NW Brazil
56. Aspidosperma spruceanum - Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Guianas
57. Aspidosperma steyermarkii - Bolívar in Venezuela
58. Aspidosperma subincanum - Brazil, Bolivia
59. Aspidosperma thomasii - Bahia
60. Aspidosperma tomentosum - Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay
61. Aspidosperma triternatum - Paraguay, N. Argentina
62. Aspidosperma ulei - Brazil, Guianas, Venezuela, Colombia
63. Aspidosperma vargasii - Brazil, Guianas, Venezuela (incl Antilles), Colombia
64. Aspidosperma williamii - Amazonas in Brazil

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