''Duvaliandra'' is a species of plants in the

Apocynaceae Apocynaceae (from ''Apocynum'', Greek for "dog-away") is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, stem succulents, and vines, commonly known as the dogbane family, because some taxa were used as dog poison Members of the ...

first described as a genus in 1980.Tropicos, ''Duvaliandra''
/ref> It contains only one known species, ''Duvaliandra dioscoridis'', native to the

Socotra Socotra or Soqotra (; ar, سُقُطْرَىٰ ; so, Suqadara) is an island of the Republic of Yemen in the Indian Ocean, under the ''de facto'' control of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, a secessionist participant in Yemen� ...

Islands in the

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by ...

.Lavranos, John Jacob. 1972. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 37: t. 3687, p. 1.

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q5815309, from2=Q15583581 Endemic flora of Socotra Asclepiadoideae Monotypic Apocynaceae genera