''Larryleachia'' is a genus of
stapeliad
The genera of plants within the tribe Stapelieae are all to varying degrees stem succulents. Many of the species resemble cacti, though are not closely related, as an example of convergent evolution. The stems are often angular, mostly four-an ...
succulent flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of ...
s in the family
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 ...
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;Species
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Larryleachia cactiformis
''Larryleachia cactiformis'' is a stapeliad succulent, native to Namaqualand in South Africa, where it grows in rocky areas. ''Larryleachia cactiformis'' proves as difficult a member of the family Apocynaceae in cultivation as others in its g ...
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(Hooker) Plowes
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Larryleachia marlothii
''Larryleachia marlothii'' is a summer-flowering succulent plant native to Namibia and southern Angola.
Description
Grey-green and sometimes brown, ''Larryleachia marlothii'' grows as a separate, cylindrical stem of up to 6 inches tall spiralled ...
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(N.E. Brown) Plowes
* ''
Larryleachia perlata
''Larryleachia perlata'' is a species of flowering plant the family Apocynaceae. The species is a succulent plant species. The species is considered an insufficiently known species.
The plant can get up to 30 cm tall and the stems can be 2.5 c ...
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(Dinter) Plowes
* ''
Larryleachia picta
''Larryleachia'' is a genus of stapeliad succulent flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae.
;Species
* '' Larryleachia cactiformis'' (Hooker) Plowes
* '' Larryleachia marlothii'' (N.E. Brown) Plowes
* '' Larryleachia perlata'' (Dinter) Plo ...
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(N.E.Brown) Plowes
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Larryleachia tirasmontana
''Larryleachia tirasmontana'' is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae. It is endemic to Namibia. Its natural habitat is cold desert
A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, livin ...
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(Plowes) Plowes
;Taxonomy
Phylogenetic studies have shown the genus to be monophyletic, and most closely related to the stapeliad genera ''
Richtersveldtia'' and ''
Notechidnopsis''. Marginally more distantly related is a sister branch of related genera including ''
Lavrania'' and ''
Hoodia
''Hoodia'' (; known locally as "ghaap" or "bobbejaanghaap") is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, under the subfamily Asclepiadoideae, native to Southern Africa.
One species of ''Hoodia'' in particular, '' Hoodia gordonii' ...
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[P. Bruyns, C. Klak, P. Hanacek: ''Evolution of the stapeliads (Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae) - repeated major radiation across Africa in an Old World group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.'' 2014. v. 77, no. 1, p. 251--263. ISSN 1055-7903.]
References
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Apocynaceae genera
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