''Dirachma'' is the sole

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of the

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Dirachmaceae. The genus had been

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, its sole species being the

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''Dirachma socotrana'', until a second,

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, species, ''Dirachma somalensis'', was discovered in

Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constitut ...

and described in 1991.Link, D.A. 1991
''Dirachma somalensis'' D.A.Link ''sp. nov.'' A New Species of a Remarkable and Highly Endangered Monogeneric Family.
''Bulletin du Jardin botanique national de Belgique / Bulletin van de National Plantentuin van België'', 61: 3-13.

References

Rosales Rosales genera Taxa named by Isaac Bayley Balfour Taxa named by Georg August Schweinfurth Flora of Somalia Flora of Socotra {{Rosales-stub