{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{automatic taxobox |image = Apeiba echinata 3.JPG |image_caption = Fruit of ''Apeiba echinata'' |taxon = Apeiba |authority = Aubl. (1775) |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = 10; see text |subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo>{{Cite web|url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:39365-1|title=''Apeiba'' Aubl.|website=Plants of the World Online|language=en|access-date=21 August 2024}}</ref> |synonyms = *''Aubletia'' {{small|Schreb. (1789), nom. illeg.}} *''Oxytandrum'' {{small|Neck. (1790), opus utique oppr.}} |synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo/> }} [[File:Apeiba glabra MHNT.BOT.2018.6.5.jpg|thumb|''Apeiba glabra'' - MHNT]] [[File:Apeiba petoumo MHNT.BOT.2018.6.6.jpg|thumb|''Apeiba petoumo'' - MHNT]]

'''''Apeiba''''' is a genus of shrubs or trees in the family Malvaceae.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Standley|first=Paul|last2=Steyermark|first2=Julian|date=1949|title=Flora of Guatemala|journal=Fieldiana|language=en|volume=v.24:pt.6|pages=303–304}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Macbride|first=J.Francis|date=1956|title=Flora of Peru|journal=Fieldiana|language=en|volume=v.13:pt.3A:no.2|pages=425–426}}</ref> It includes ten species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from northeastern Mexico to Bolivia and southeastern Brazil.<ref name = powo/><ref name=":1" />

==Species== Ten species are accepted.<ref name = powo/> * ''Apeiba albiflora'' {{small|Ducke}} * ''Apeiba glabra'' {{small|Aubl.}} * ''Apeiba intermedia'' {{small|Uittien}} * ''Apeiba macropetala'' {{small|Ducke}} * ''Apeiba membranacea'' {{small|Spruce ex Benth.}} * ''Apeiba petoumo'' {{small|Aubl.}} * ''Apeiba schomburgkii'' {{small|Szyszył.}} * ''Apeiba tibourbou'' {{small|Aubl.}} * ''Apeiba trombetensis'' {{small|Dorr}} * ''Apeiba uittienii'' {{small|Jans.-Jac. & Westra}}

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Category:Apeiba Category:Malvaceae genera Category:Flora of the Neotropical realm Category:Taxa described in 1775 Category:Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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