''Metastelma'' is a genus of

plant Plants are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic eukaryotes of the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all curr ...

in the family

Apocynaceae Apocynaceae (from ''Apocynum'', Greek for "dog-away") is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, stem succulents, and vines, commonly known as the dogbane family, because some taxa were used as dog poison Members of the ...

first described in 1810.Liede, S. & U. Meve. 2004. Revision of ''Metastelma'' (Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae) in southwestern North America and Central America. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 91(1): 31–86. ;SpeciesThe Plant List
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Apocynaceae genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Apocynaceae-stub