{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = |image_caption = |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Piptocoma |authority = Cass. |type_species = ''Piptocoma rufescens'' |type_species_authority = Cass. |synonyms_ref = <ref name=j>[http://dixon.iplantcollaborative.org/compositaeweb/Default.aspx?Page=AdvNameSearch Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist ] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20141106174748/http://dixon.iplantcollaborative.org/CompositaeWeb/Default.aspx?Page=AdvNameSearch |date=2014-11-06 }}</ref> |synonyms = * ''Adenocyclus'' <small>Less.</small> * ''Pollalesta'' <small>Kunth</small> }}
'''''Piptocoma''''', common name '''velvetshrub''',<ref>[http://plants.usda.gov/plant-profile?symbol=PIPTO3 US Department of Agriculture Plants Profile]</ref> is a genus of Caribbean and Latin American plants in the tribe Vernonieae<ref>[http://sterlingkeeley.wordpress.com/vernonieae/ Dr. Sterling C. Keeley, University of Hawai`i, Vernonieae- The Evil Tribe]</ref> within the family Asteraceae.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4439489#page/12/mode/1up Cassini, Alexandre Henri Gabriel de. 1817. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Societe Philomatique 1817: 10] in French</ref><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40009332 Tropicos, ''Piptocoma'' Cass.]</ref>
; Species<ref name=j/><ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/661827#page/96/mode/1up Pruski, John Francis. 1996. Novon 6:96-102]</ref> {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| * ''Piptocoma acevedroi'' <small>Pruski</small> - Puerto Rico * ''Piptocoma antillana'' <small>Urb.</small> - Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands * ''Piptocoma areolata'' <small>(Wurdack) Pruski</small> - eastern Venezuela * ''Piptocoma barinensis'' <small>(Aristeg.) Pruski</small> - Venezuela * ''Piptocoma discolor'' <small>(Kunth) Pruski</small> - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil * ''Piptocoma ekmanii'' <small>Alain</small> - Hispaniola * ''Piptocoma hypochlora'' <small>(S.F.Blake) Pruski</small> - Venezuela, Trinidad * ''Piptocoma macrophylla'' <small>(Sch.Bip.) Pruski</small> - Venezuela, Colombia * ''Piptocoma milleri'' <small>(J.R.Johnst.) Pruski</small> - Venezuela, Trinidad * ''Piptocoma neglecta'' <small>(Stutts) Pruski</small> - Venezuela * ''Piptocoma niceforoi'' <small>(Cuatrec.) Pruski</small> - Venezuela, Colombia * ''Piptocoma roraimensis'' <small>(Steyerm.) Pruski</small> - Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil * ''Piptocoma rufescens'' <small>Cass.</small> - Hispaniola * ''Piptocoma samanensis'' <small>Alain</small> - Hispaniola * ''Piptocoma schomburgkii'' <small>(Sch.Bip.) Pruski</small> - Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Colombia, Suriname, French Guinea * ''Piptocoma spruceana'' <small>(Benth.) Pruski</small> - Amazonas State in Venezuela * ''Piptocoma trujillensis'' <small>(Aristeg.) Pruski</small> - Venezuela * ''Piptocoma vernonioides'' <small>(Kunth) Pruski</small> - Venezuela }} ; formerly included<ref name=j/> Several species now in ''Lychnophora''
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Category:Asteraceae genera Category:Vernonieae
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