''Notechidnopsis'' is a group of plants 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 ...
first described as a genus in 1985. It contains only one recognized species, ''Notechidnopsis tessellata'', native to
Cape Province
The Province of the Cape of Good Hope ( af, Provinsie Kaap die Goeie Hoop), commonly referred to as the Cape Province ( af, Kaapprovinsie) and colloquially as The Cape ( af, Die Kaap), was a province in the Union of South Africa and subsequen ...
in
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring count ...
.
;formerly included
moved to ''
Riocreuxia''
*''Notechidnopsis columnaris''
(Nel) Lavranos & Bleck synonym of ''
Riocreuxia torulosa''
Decne.
;Taxonomy
Phylogenetic studies have shown this genus to most closely related to the stapeliad genera ''
Richtersveldtia'' and ''
Larryleachia
''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) Plowes ...
''. 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' ...
''.
[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
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Monotypic Apocynaceae genera
Flora of South Africa
Asclepiadoideae