Hylaea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1999. It is native to the Amazon rainforest of southern Venezuela and northwestern Brazil.[1]

Hylaea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Apocynoideae
Tribe: Echiteae
Genus: Hylaea
J.F.Morales
Type species
Hylaea leptoloba
J.F.Morales
Species[1]

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