''Molongum'' is a genus of

plant Plants are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic eukaryotes of the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all curr ...

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 1948. It is native to

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.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> ;Species * '' Molongum laxum'' (Benth.) Pichon - Colombia, Venezuela, NW Brazil * '' Molongum lucidum'' (Kunth) Zarucchi - Colombia, Venezuela, NW Brazil * '' Molongum zschokkeiforme'' (Markgr.) Pichon - NW Brazil ;formerly included *''Molongum macrophyllum'' (Müll.Arg.) Pichon = ''

Spongiosperma macrophyllum ''Spongiosperma macrophyllum'' is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae first described in 1860. It is native to the Amazon Basin of South America, nations of Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil .Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (200 ...

'' (Müll.Arg.) Zarucchi

References

Apocynaceae genera Rauvolfioideae {{Apocynaceae-stub