{{Short description|Genus of plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Blepharodon pictum.jpg |image_caption = ''Blepharodon pictum'' |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Blepharodon |authority = Decne. |type_species = ''Blepharodon lineare'' |type_species_authority = (Decne.) Decne. |synonyms_ref = <ref name="POWO">{{cite POWO |id=3236-1 |title=''Blepharodon'' Decne. |access-date=3 January 2022}}</ref> |synonyms = {{species list |Anomotassa |K.Schum. |Ptycholepis |Griseb. }} }}
'''''Blepharodon''''' is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1844.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/163559#page/611/mode/1up Candolle, Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus de. 1844. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 8: 603] in Latin</ref> They are native primarily to South America, with one species extending into Central America and Mexico.<ref>Miranda, T., A. F. Fuentes Claros, P. M. Jørgensen & S. G. Beck. 2010. Relaciones fitogeográficas de las sabanas montanas de Apolo en la Región Madidi, con sabanas neotropicales. La Paz, Bolivia. Ecología en Bolivia 45(2): 138–146.</ref><ref>Breedlove, D.E. 1986. Flora de Chiapas. Listados Florísticos de México 4: i–v, 1–246.</ref><ref>Carnevali, G., J. L. Tapia-Muñoz, R. Duno de Stefano & I. M. Ramírez Morillo. 2010. Flora Ilustrada de la Peninsula Yucatán: Listado Florístico 1–326</ref><ref>Correa A., M.D., C. Galdames & M. Stapf. 2004. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Panamá 1–599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá</ref><ref>Ibarra Manríquez, G. & S. Sinaca Colín. 1995. Lista florística comentada de la estación de biología tropical "Los Tuxtlas", Veracruz, Mexico. Revista de Biología Tropical 43(1–3): 75–115.</ref><ref>Hokche, O., P. E. Berry & O. Huber. (eds.) 2008. Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela 1–860. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela, Caracas</ref><ref>Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., R. D. C. Ortiz, R. Callejas Posada & M. Merello. (eds.) 2011. Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 9–939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín</ref><ref>Steyermark, J. A. 1995. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Project</ref>
;Species {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| # ''Blepharodon amazonicum'' - NW Brazil # ''Blepharodon ampliflorum'' - NW Brazil # ''Blepharodon angustifolium'' - Paraguay # ''Blepharodon bicolor'' - Brazil # ''Blepharodon bicuspidatum'' - Brazil # ''Blepharodon colombianum'' - Colombia # ''Blepharodon costae'' - Bahia # ''Blepharodon crabronum'' - Serrania de Santiago de Chiquitos in Bolivia # ''Blepharodon cuatrecasasii'' - Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia # ''Blepharodon glaucescens'' - Guyana # ''Blepharodon gomphocarpoides'' # ''Blepharodon grandiflorum'' - Colombia # ''Blepharodon harlingii'' - Ecuador # ''Blepharodon hatschbachii'' - Ponte de Pedra in Mato Grosso # ''Blepharodon hirsutum'' - Rio de Contas in Bahia # ''Blepharodon juliani'' - Bolívar State in SE Venezuela # ''Blepharodon lineare'' - Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay # ''Blepharodon maigualidae'' - Amazonas State in S Venezuela # ''Blepharodon manicatum'' - Piauí # ''Blepharodon mucronatum'' - from Tamaulipas + Nayarit south to Colombia + Venezuela # ''Blepharodon perijaense'' - Sierra de Perijá in Colombia # ''Blepharodon philibertioides'' - Cerro San Miserate in Bolivia # ''Blepharodon pictum'' - Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Suriname, Fr Guiana # ''Blepharodon polydori'' - Colombia # ''Blepharodon reflexum'' - Paraguay, Brazil # ''Blepharodon salicinum'' - Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia # ''Blepharodon suberectum'' - Cauca region in Colombia # ''Blepharodon tillettii'' - Guyana # ''Blepharodon ulei'' - Guyana, S Venezuela, N Brazil }} ;formerly included transferred to other genera ''(Ditassa, Minaria, Nephradenia)'' {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| # ''B. asparagoides'' now ''Nephradenia asparagoides'' # ''B. ciliatum'' now ''Ditassa ciliata'' # ''B. polygaloides'' now ''Minaria polygaloides'' # ''B. viscidum'' now ''Nephradenia linearis'' # ''Blepharodon bolivianum'' now ''Vailia mucronata'' <ref name=Vailia/> # ''Blepharodon peruvianum'' now ''Vailia mucronata''<ref name=Vailia>{{cite POWO |id=299308-2 |title=''Vailia mucronata'' Rusby |access-date=3 January 2022}}</ref> }}
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Category:Asclepiadoideae Category:Apocynaceae genera Category:Taxa named by Joseph Decaisne