Platypodanthera is a genus of plants in the tribe Eupatorieae within the family Asteraceae.D.J.N.Hind & H.E.Robinson. 2007. Tribe Eupatorieae In: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants vol.VIII. (Joachim W.Kadereit & Charles Jeffrey, volume editors. Klaus Kubitzky, general editor). Springer-Verlag. Berlin, Heidelberg.King, Robert Merrill & Robinson, Harold Ernest. 1972. Phytologia 24: 182-183Tropicos, Platypodanthera R.M. King & H. Rob.
Species The only known species is Platypodanthera melissifolia, native to eastern Brazil (States of Bahia and Pernambuco).Tropicos, Platypodanthera melissifolia (DC.) R.M. King & H. Rob.
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