Rhabdadenia

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}

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|image_caption = Rhabdadenia biflora

|image2 = Rhabdadenia madida.jpg

|image2_caption = Rhabdadenia madida

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|parent_authority = Pichon ex M.E.Endress

|taxon = Rhabdadenia

|authority = Müll.Arg.

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Rhabdadenia is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1860. It is native to South America, Central America, southern Mexico, the West Indies, and Florida.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=177616 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]Morales, J.F. (2009). Estudios en las Apocynaceae Neotropicales XXXVII: Monografia del género Rhabdadenia (Apocynaceae: Echiteae). Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 3: 541-564.

;Species

• Rhabdadenia biflora (Jacq.) Müll.Arg. - widespread from Florida and southern Mexico to Brazil
• Rhabdadenia madida (Vell.) Miers - South America from Colombia + the Guianas to Uruguay + Bolivia
• Rhabdadenia ragonesei Woodson - Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraguay, N Argentina

;formerly included in the genus

1. Rhabdadenia barbata (Desv. ex Ham.) Miers = Pentalinon luteum (L.) B.F.Hansen & Wunderlin
2. Rhabdadenia berteroi (A.DC.) Müll.Arg. = Angadenia berteroi (A.DC.) Miers
3. Rhabdadenia campestris (Vell.) Miers = Mandevilla hirsuta (Rich.) K.Schum.
4. Rhabdadenia corallicola Small = Angadenia berteroi (A.DC.) Miers
5. Rhabdadenia cubensis Müll.Arg. = Angadenia berteroi (A.DC.) Miers
6. Rhabdadenia laxiflora Miers = Pentalinon luteum (L.) B.F.Hansen & Wunderlin
7. Rhabdadenia lindeniana Müll.Arg. = Angadenia lindeniana (Müll.Arg.) Miers
8. Rhabdadenia lucida Miers = Odontadenia nitida (Vahl) Müll.Arg.
9. Rhabdadenia polyneura Urb = Odontadenia polyneura (Urb.) Woodson
10. Rhabdadenia sagrae (A.DC.) Müll.Arg. ex Griseb. = Angadenia berteroi (A.DC.) Miers
11. Rhabdadenia wrightiana Müll.Arg. = Neobracea valenzuelana (A.Rich.) Urb.