Notechidnopsis

Notechidnopsis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Genus: Notechidnopsis
Lavranos & Bleck
Binomial name
Notechidnopsis tessellata
(Pillans ) Lavranos & Bleck

Notechidnopsis is a species of plants in the Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1985.[1][2] It contains only one recognized species, Notechidnopsis tessellata , native to Cape Province in South Africa.[3]

formerly included[4]

moved to Riocreuxia

Taxonomy

Phylogenetic studies have shown this genus to most closely related to the Richtersveldtia and Larryleachia genera of stapeliads. Marginally more distantly related is a sister branch of related genera including Lavrania and Hoodia.[5]

References

  1. Lavranos, John Jacob & Bleck, M.B. 1985. Cactus and Succulent Journal (Los Angeles) 57(6): 256
  2. Tropicos, genus Notechidnopsis
  3. AFPD. 2008. African Flowering Plants Database - Base de Donnees des Plantes a Fleurs D'Afrique.
  4. The Plant List, genus Notechidnopsis
  5. 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.