''Ischnolepis'' is a species 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 1909.
[Tropicos, genus ''Ischnolepis'' ]
/ref>[Venter, H. J. T. & R. L. Verhoeven. 1997. A tribal classification of the Periplocoideae (Apocynaceae). Taxon 46: 705–720.]
It contains two species:[
* '' Ischnolepis graminifolia'' – ]Madagascar
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* '' Ischnolepis natalensis'' – South Africa
References
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Periplocoideae
Apocynaceae genera
Taxa named by Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie
Taxa named by Henri Lucien Jumelle
Flora of the Afrotropical realm