''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, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa. The country is located in the Horn of Africa and is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, Kenya to the southwest, th ...

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 Taxa named by John Hutchinson (botanist) {{Rosales-stub