Biology:Lavrania
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Short description: Genus of plants
Lavrania | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Gentianales |
Family: | Apocynaceae |
Subfamily: | Asclepiadoideae |
Tribe: | Ceropegieae |
Genus: | Lavrania Plowes[2] |
Species: | L. haagnerae
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Binomial name | |
Lavrania haagnerae Plowes[2]
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Lavrania is a monospecific genus of plants in family Apocynaceae. Its only species is Lavrania haagnerae, endemic to Namibia.[2] Its natural habitat is rocky areas.[1]
Taxonomy
The genus and species were first described in 1986.[2] Phylogenetic studies have shown the genus to be monophyletic, and most closely related to the stapeliad genus Hoodia. Marginally more distantly related is a sister branch of related genera including Larryleachia, Richtersveldia and Notechidnopsis.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Craven, P. (2004). "Lavrania haagnerae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T46823A11083872. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T46823A11083872.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/46823/11083872. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Lavrania Lavrania". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:924962-1.
- ↑ Bruyns, P.; Klak, C.; Hanacek, P. (2014). "Evolution of the stapeliads (Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae) – repeated major radiation across Africa in an Old World group". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 77 (1): 251–263. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.03.022.
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