''Pentacyphus'' is a genus of plants 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 1906. 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 ...

. ;SpeciesThe Plant List, genus ''Pentacyphus''
/ref> # '' Pentacyphus andinus'' (Ball) Liede – Peru # '' Pentacyphus lehmannii'' (Schltr.) Liede – Colombia, Ecuador ;formerly included ''Pentacyphus tamanus'' (Morillo) Liede, synonym of '' Tetraphysa tamana'' Morillo – Venezuela

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Asclepiadoideae Apocynaceae genera {{Apocynaceae-stub