- Family:
- Apocynaceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Oxypetalum R.Br.
Oxypetalum coeruleum (D.Don ex Sweet) Decne.

[FTEA]
Apocynaceae (part 2), David Goyder, Timothy Harris, Siro Masinde, Ulrich Meve, Johan Venter. Flora of Tropical East Africa, 2012
- Morphology General Habit
- Woody herb or small straggling shrub with very characteristic blue flowers.
- Note
- Native to Argentina.
Native to:
Brazil South, Uruguay
Introduced into:
New South Wales, Queensland
Oxypetalum coeruleum (D.Don ex Sweet) Decne. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Jan 1, 2005 | Farinaccio, M.A. [727], Brazil | K000996069 | Yes | ||
Jul 4, 2001 | Sellow [663], Brazil | K000096096 | Yes | ||
4023.000 | No | ||||
5360.000 | No | ||||
Hooker [s.n.] | K000096097 | lectotype | Yes |
First published in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 8: 585 (1844)
Accepted by
- Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996). Flora of Australia 28: 1-335. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
- Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996). Flora of Australia 28: 1-335. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
- Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden.
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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