Schistonema is a group of plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1906.Schlechter, Friedrich Richard Rudolf. 1906. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 37: 604–605 descriptions in Latin, commentary in GermanTropicos, genus Schistonema It contains only one known species, Schistonema weberbaueri, native to the Cajamarca region of Peru.León, B., J. Roque, C. Ulloa Ulloa, N. C. A. Pitman, P. M. Jørgensen & A. Cano E. 2006 . El Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endémicas del Perú. Revista Peruana de Biologia 13(núm. 2 especial): 1s–971s.

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