Dactylostelma

Dactylostelma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Genus: Dactylostelma
Schltr.
Binomial name
Dactylostelma boliviense
Schltr.

Dactylostelma is a species of plants in the Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1895.[1] It contains only one known species, Dactylostelma boliviense , endemic to Bolivia.[2][3]

References

  1. Schlechter, Friedrich Richard Rudolf .1895. Dactylostelma. Oesterreichische Botanische Zeitschrift 45: 452–3 description in Latin, commentary in German
  2. Foster, R. C. 1958. A catalogue of the ferns and flowering plants of Bolivia. Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University 184: 1–223
  3. Tropicos, Dactylostelma boliviense Schltr.