''Asketanthera'' is a genus of

plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...

s in the family

Apocynaceae Apocynaceae (from ''Apocynum'', Greek for "dog-away") is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, stem succulents, and vines, commonly known as the dogbane family, because some taxa were used as dog poison Members of the ...

first described as a genus in 1878. It is native to the

West Indies The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that includes 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies and other territories in three major archipelagos: the Greater A ...

.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> ;Species * '' Asketanthera calycosa'' (A.Rich.) Woodson - Cuba * '' Asketanthera dolichopetala'' (Urb.) Woodson - Dominican Republic * '' Asketanthera longiflora'' Woodson - Dominican Republic + Haiti * '' Asketanthera obtusifolia'' Alain - Sierra del Bahoruco in Dominican Republic * '' Asketanthera picardae'' (Urb.) Woodson - Haiti ;Formerly included ''Asketanthera steyermarkii'' Markgr., syn of '' Macropharynx steyermarkii'' (Markgr.) J.F.Morales

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Apocynaceae genera Echiteae {{Apocynaceae-stub