''Metastelma'' 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 in 1810.
[Liede, S. & U. Meve. 2004. Revision of ''Metastelma'' (Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae) in southwestern North America and Central America. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 91(1): 31–86.]
;Species
[The Plant List]
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References
Apocynaceae genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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