Biology:Notechidnopsis
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Short description: Genus of flowering plants
| Notechidnopsis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Plantae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Tracheophytes |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Angiosperms |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Eudicots |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Asterids |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Gentianales |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Apocynaceae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Asclepiadoideae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Ceropegieae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Notechidnopsis Lavranos & Bleck |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | <div style="display:inline" class="script error: no such module "taxobox ranks".">N. tessellata |
| Binomial name | |
| Notechidnopsis tessellata (Pillans ) Lavranos & Bleck
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Notechidnopsis is a group of plants in the family 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
- 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. Marginally more distantly related is a sister branch of related genera including Lavrania and Hoodia.[5]
References
- ↑ Lavranos, John Jacob & Bleck, M.B. 1985. Cactus and Succulent Journal (Los Angeles) 57(6): 256
- ↑ Tropicos, genus Notechidnopsis
- ↑ AFPD. 2008. African Flowering Plants Database - Base de Donnees des Plantes a Fleurs D'Afrique.
- ↑ The Plant List, genus Notechidnopsis
- ↑ 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.
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