# Apeiba

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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{automatic taxobox
|image = Apeiba echinata 3.JPG
|image_caption = Fruit of ''Apeiba echinata''
|taxon = Apeiba
|authority = [Aubl.](/source/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](/source/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](/source/MHNT)]]
[[File:Apeiba petoumo MHNT.BOT.2018.6.6.jpg|thumb|''Apeiba petoumo'' - [MHNT](/source/MHNT)]]

'''''Apeiba''''' is a genus of [shrub](/source/shrub)s or [tree](/source/tree)s in the family [Malvaceae](/source/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](/source/Neotropical_realm) [Americas](/source/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](/source/Apeiba_albiflora)'' {{small|Ducke}}
* ''[Apeiba glabra](/source/Apeiba_glabra)'' {{small|Aubl.}}
* ''[Apeiba intermedia](/source/Apeiba_intermedia)'' {{small|Uittien}}
* ''[Apeiba macropetala](/source/Apeiba_macropetala)'' {{small|Ducke}}
* ''[Apeiba membranacea](/source/Apeiba_membranacea)'' {{small|Spruce ex Benth.}}
* ''[Apeiba petoumo](/source/Apeiba_petoumo)'' {{small|Aubl.}}
* ''[Apeiba schomburgkii](/source/Apeiba_schomburgkii)'' {{small|Szyszył.}}
* ''[Apeiba tibourbou](/source/Apeiba_tibourbou)'' {{small|Aubl.}}
* ''[Apeiba trombetensis](/source/Apeiba_trombetensis)'' {{small|Dorr}}
* ''[Apeiba uittienii](/source/Apeiba_uittienii)'' {{small|Jans.-Jac. & Westra}}

==References==
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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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