# Blepharodon
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{{Short description|Genus of plants}}
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|image = Blepharodon pictum.jpg
|image_caption = ''[Blepharodon pictum](/source/Blepharodon_pictum)''
|display_parents = 2
|taxon = Blepharodon
|authority = [Decne.](/source/Decne.)
|type_species = ''Blepharodon lineare''
|type_species_authority = ([Decne.](/source/Decne.)) [Decne.](/source/Decne.)
|synonyms_ref = [{{cite POWO |id=3236-1 |title=''Blepharodon'' Decne. |access-date=3 January 2022}}]
|synonyms = {{species list
|Anomotassa |K.Schum.
|Ptycholepis |Griseb. }}
}}
'''''Blepharodon''''' is a genus of [plant](/source/plant) in the family [Apocynaceae](/source/Apocynaceae), first described as a genus in 1844.[[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] They are native primarily to [South America](/source/South_America), with one species extending into [Central America](/source/Central_America) and [Mexico](/source/Mexico).[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.][Breedlove, D.E. 1986. Flora de Chiapas. Listados Florísticos de México 4: i–v, 1–246.][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][Correa A., M.D., C. Galdames & M. Stapf. 2004. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Panamá 1–599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá][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.][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][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][Steyermark, J. A. 1995. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Project]
;Species
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# ''[Blepharodon amazonicum](/source/Blepharodon_amazonicum)'' - NW Brazil
# ''[Blepharodon ampliflorum](/source/Blepharodon_ampliflorum)'' - NW Brazil
# ''[Blepharodon angustifolium](/source/Blepharodon_angustifolium)'' - Paraguay
# ''[Blepharodon bicolor](/source/Blepharodon_bicolor)'' - Brazil
# ''[Blepharodon bicuspidatum](/source/Blepharodon_bicuspidatum)'' - Brazil
# ''[Blepharodon colombianum](/source/Blepharodon_colombianum)'' - Colombia
# ''[Blepharodon costae](/source/Blepharodon_costae)'' - Bahia
# ''[Blepharodon crabronum](/source/Blepharodon_crabronum)'' - Serrania de Santiago de Chiquitos in Bolivia
# ''[Blepharodon cuatrecasasii](/source/Blepharodon_cuatrecasasii)'' - Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia
# ''[Blepharodon glaucescens](/source/Blepharodon_glaucescens)'' - Guyana
# ''[Blepharodon gomphocarpoides](/source/Blepharodon_gomphocarpoides)''
# ''[Blepharodon grandiflorum](/source/Blepharodon_grandiflorum)'' - Colombia
# ''[Blepharodon harlingii](/source/Blepharodon_harlingii)'' - Ecuador
# ''[Blepharodon hatschbachii](/source/Blepharodon_hatschbachii)'' - Ponte de Pedra in Mato Grosso
# ''[Blepharodon hirsutum](/source/Blepharodon_hirsutum)'' - Rio de Contas in Bahia
# ''[Blepharodon juliani](/source/Blepharodon_juliani)'' - Bolívar State in SE Venezuela
# ''[Blepharodon lineare](/source/Blepharodon_lineare)'' - Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay
# ''[Blepharodon maigualidae](/source/Blepharodon_maigualidae)'' - Amazonas State in S Venezuela
# ''[Blepharodon manicatum](/source/Blepharodon_manicatum)'' - Piauí
# ''[Blepharodon mucronatum](/source/Blepharodon_mucronatum)'' - from Tamaulipas + Nayarit south to Colombia + Venezuela
# ''[Blepharodon perijaense](/source/Blepharodon_perijaense)'' - Sierra de Perijá in Colombia
# ''[Blepharodon philibertioides](/source/Blepharodon_philibertioides)'' - Cerro San Miserate in Bolivia
# ''[Blepharodon pictum](/source/Blepharodon_pictum)'' - Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Suriname, Fr Guiana
# ''[Blepharodon polydori](/source/Blepharodon_polydori)'' - Colombia
# ''[Blepharodon reflexum](/source/Blepharodon_reflexum)'' - Paraguay, Brazil
# ''[Blepharodon salicinum](/source/Blepharodon_salicinum)'' - Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia
# ''[Blepharodon suberectum](/source/Blepharodon_suberectum)'' - Cauca region in Colombia
# ''[Blepharodon tillettii](/source/Blepharodon_tillettii)'' - Guyana
# ''[Blepharodon ulei](/source/Blepharodon_ulei)'' - Guyana, S Venezuela, N Brazil
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;formerly included
transferred to other genera ''([Ditassa](/source/Ditassa), [Minaria](/source/Minaria), [Nephradenia](/source/Nephradenia))''
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# ''B. asparagoides'' now ''[Nephradenia asparagoides](/source/Nephradenia_asparagoides)''
# ''B. ciliatum'' now ''[Ditassa ciliata](/source/Ditassa_ciliata)''
# ''B. polygaloides'' now ''[Minaria polygaloides](/source/Minaria_polygaloides)''
# ''B. viscidum'' now ''[Nephradenia linearis](/source/Nephradenia_linearis)''
# ''Blepharodon bolivianum'' now ''[Vailia mucronata](/source/Vailia)'' [
# ''Blepharodon peruvianum'' now ''[Vailia mucronata](/source/Vailia)''][{{cite POWO |id=299308-2 |title=''Vailia mucronata'' Rusby |access-date=3 January 2022}}] }}
==References==
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Category:Asclepiadoideae
Category:Apocynaceae genera
Category:Taxa named by Joseph Decaisne
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