''Macroditassa'' 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 1927. It is native 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 ...
.
;Species
The Plant List, genus ''Macroditassa''
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;formerly included
transferred to ''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 violascens'' (Schltr.) Malme synonym of '' Ditassa violascens'' Schltr..
References
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Asclepiadoideae
Apocynaceae genera
Taxa named by Gustaf Oskar Andersson Malme