''Lepiniopsis'' is a genus of

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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 1895. It is native to various islands in

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and in the

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.World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref>Middleton, D.J. (2007). Apocynaceae (subfamilies Rauvolfioideae and Apocynoideae). Flora Malesiana 18: 1-474. Noordhoff-Kolff N.V., Djakarta. ;Species * ''

Lepiniopsis ternatensis ''Lepiniopsis'' is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1895. It is native to various islands in Southeast Asia and in the Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five ...

'' Valeton - New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Philippines, Maluku, Sulawesi * '' Lepiniopsis trilocularis'' Markgr. - Palau in Micronesia

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Papua New Guinea Trees, ''Lepiniopsis ternatensis'' Valeton
Apocynaceae genera Rauvolfioideae {{Apocynaceae-stub