''Blepharodon'' 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 ...

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 1844. They are native primarily to

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southe ...

, with one species extending into

Central America Central America ( es, América Central or ) is a subregion of the Americas. Its boundaries are defined as bordering the United States to the north, Colombia to the south, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. ...

and

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

.Steyermark, J. A. 1995. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Project ;Species ;formerly included transferred to other genera ''(

Ditassa ''Ditassa'' is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1810. It is native to South America. ;Species ;formerly included transferred to other genera ''(Blepharodon, Cynanchum, Macroditassa, Metastelma, Minari ...

, Macroditassa, Minaria, Nephradenia)''

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5730232 Asclepiadoideae Apocynaceae genera Taxa named by Joseph Decaisne