''Skytanthus'' 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 1834. It is native to

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

and

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

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 ...

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Skytanthus acutus ''Skytanthus'' is a genus of plant in family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1834. It is native to Brazil and Chile in South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern ...

'' Meyen - from Antofagasta to Coquimbo in N + C Chile * '' Skytanthus hancorniifolius'' (A.DC.) Miers - E Brazil * '' Skytanthus martianus'' (Müll.Arg.) Miers - Bahia + Minas Gerais in Brazil ;Formerly placed in this genus * ''Skytanthus havanensis'' (Müll.Arg.) Miers = ''

Cameraria latifolia ''Cameraria'', a 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 bo ...

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Apocynaceae genera {{Apocynaceae-stub