Biology:Echidnopsis
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Short description: Genus of flowering plants
| Echidnopsis | |
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| Echidnopsis dammaniana | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Apocynaceae |
| Subfamily: | Asclepiadoideae |
| Tribe: | Ceropegieae |
| Genus: | Echidnopsis Hook.f. |
| Type species | |
| Echidnopsis cereiformis Hook.f.
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Echidnopsis is a genus of succulent, cactus-like plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1871.[1] They are native to eastern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.[2][3]
- Accepted species[4]
- Species formerly included[4]
Echidnopsis quadrangula now Caralluma quadrangula
- Taxonomy
Phylogenetic studies have shown the genus to be monophyletic, and most closely related to the genus Rhytidocaulon. Marginally more distantly related is a sister branch comprising the genus Pseudolithos and the widespread Caralluma stapeliads of North Africa.[5]
References
- ↑ Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1871. Botanical Magazine v 97, plate 5930. includes color illustration of E. cereiformis
- ↑ Asclepiad Exhibition, Echidnopsis Fockea
- ↑ "Wildscreen Arkive". http://www.arkive.org/echidnopsis/echidnopsis-bentii/.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Plant List, genus Echidnopsis
- ↑ 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q289096 entry
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