''Tweedia'' is a genus of flowering 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 1835. The genus 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 ...

. An ornamental plant, '' Oxypetalum coeruleum'', formerly included in this genus is commonly referred to as "tweedia".Marticorena, C. & M. Quezada. 1985. Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Chile. Gayana, Botánica 42: 1–157. ;SpeciesThe Plant List
/ref> # '' Tweedia andina'' (Phil.) G.H.Rua - Chile # '' Tweedia aucaensis'' G.H. Rua - Argentina # '' Tweedia australis'' (Malme) C. Ezcurra - Argentina # '' Tweedia birostrata'' (Hook. & Arn.) Hook. & Arn. - Chile # '' Tweedia brunonis'' Hook. & Arn. - Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay # '' Tweedia echegarayi'' (Hieron.) Malme - Argentina # '' Tweedia solanoides'' (Hook. & Arn.) Chittenden - Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay formerly included # ''Tweedia coerulea'', syn of '' Oxypetalum coeruleum'' # ''Tweedia floribunda'', syn of '' Oxypetalum solanoides'' # ''Tweedia macrolepis'', syn of '' Oxypetalum macrolepis'' # ''Tweedia versicolor'' , syn of '' Oxypetalum coeruleum''

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q6154123 Asclepiadoideae Flora of South America Apocynaceae genera Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker