''Tweedia'' is a genus of flowering plants 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. Notable mem ...

, first described as a genus in 1835. The genus is native to

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...

. An ornamental plant, '' Oxypetalum coeruleum'', formerly included in this genus is commonly referred to as "tweedia".Marticorena, C. & M. Quezada. 1985. Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Chile. Gayana, Botánica 42: 1–157.

Species

Current species include:The Plant List
/ref> # '' Tweedia andina'' (Phil.) G.H.Rua – Chile # '' Tweedia aucaensis'' G.H. Rua – Argentina # '' Tweedia australis'' (Malme) C. Ezcurra – Argentina # '' Tweedia birostrata'' (Hook. & Arn.) Hook. & Arn. – Chile # '' Tweedia brunonis'' Hook. & Arn. – Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay # '' Tweedia echegarayi'' (Hieron.) Malme – Argentina # '' Tweedia solanoides'' (Hook. & Arn.) Chittenden – Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay formerly included: # ''Tweedia coerulea'', syn of '' Oxypetalum coeruleum'' # ''Tweedia floribunda'', syn of '' Oxypetalum solanoides'' # ''Tweedia macrolepis'', syn of '' Oxypetalum macrolepis'' # ''Tweedia versicolor'' , syn of '' Oxypetalum coeruleum''

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q6154123 Asclepiadoideae Flora of Southern America Apocynaceae genera Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker