Elytropus

{{short description|Genus of plants}}

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|image = Elytropus chilensis (pabloendemico) 1.jpg

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|genus = Elytropus

|parent_authority = Müll.Arg.

|species = chilensis

|authority = (A.DC.) Müll.Arg.

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|synonyms =

• 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

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

;formerly included

• Elytropus pubescens (Wall. ex G.Don) Miers = Holarrhena pubescens Wall. ex G.Don
• Elytropus spectabilis (Stadelm.) Miers = Macropharynx spectabilis (Stadelm.) Woodson