''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. Notable mem ...

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 (), commonly referred to as the Cape Province () and colloquially as The Cape (), was a province in the Union of South Africa and subsequently the Republic of South Africa. It encompassed the old Cape Co ...

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...

. ;formerly included moved to ''

Riocreuxia ''Riocreuxia'' is a plant genus 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 ...

'' *''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 '' Richtersveldia'' 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

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q6045566, from2=Q15613586 Monotypic Apocynaceae genera Flora of South Africa Asclepiadoideae