Echidnopsis

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Home Plants angiosperms gentianales apocynaceae Echidnopsis

Hook.f.

1871

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Echidnopsis is a genus of succulent, cactus-like plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1871. They are native to eastern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Accepted species Species formerly included 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. ...read more on Wikipedia.