''Goniostemma'' 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 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 1834. It contains two known species, one native to

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, the other to

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and

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

.Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 199 勐腊藤属 meng la teng shu ''Goniostemma'' Wight & Arnott in Wight, Contr. Bot. India. 62. 1834.
/ref> ;Species # '' Goniostemma acuminata'' Wight - India, Bangladesh # '' Goniostemma punctatum'' Tsiang & P.T. Li - Yunnan

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