''Neobracea'' is a genus of plant 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 1905. It was first given the name ''Bracea'', but this turned out to be an illegitimate

homonym In linguistics, homonyms are words which are homographs (words that share the same spelling, regardless of pronunciation), or homophones (equivocal words, that share the same pronunciation, regardless of spelling), or both. Using this definition, ...

. In other words, somebody else had already used it for another plant. ''Neobracea'' is native to

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and the

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.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref>Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192. ;Species # '' Neobracea acunana'' Lippold - E Cuba # '' Neobracea angustifolia'' Britton - W Cuba # '' Neobracea bahamensis'' (Britton) Britton - Bahamas, Cuba # '' Neobracea ekmanii'' Urb. - E Cuba # '' Neobracea howardii'' Woodson - EC Cuba # '' Neobracea martiana'' Borhidi & O.Muñiz - E Cuba # '' Neobracea susannina'' Borhidi - E Cuba # '' Neobracea valenzuelana'' (A.Rich.) Urb. - Cuba

References

Malouetieae Apocynaceae genera {{Apocynaceae-stub