Echidnopsis
| 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 | |
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]
- Echidnopsis angustiloba E.A.Bruce & P.R.O.Bally - Kenya
- Echidnopsis archeri P.R.O.Bally - Kenya
- Echidnopsis ballyi (Marn.-Lap.) P.R.O.Bally - N Somalia
- Echidnopsis bentii N.E.Br. ex Hook.f. - Arabia
- Echidnopsis bihenduhensis P.R.O.Bally - N Somalia
- Echidnopsis cereiformis Hook.f. - South Africa
- Echidnopsis chrysantha Lavranos - Somalia
- Echidnopsis ciliata P.R.O.Bally - N Somalia
- Echidnopsis dammaniana Sprenger - Eritrea
- Echidnopsis ericiflora Lavranos - Kenya
- Echidnopsis globosa Thulin & Hjertson - Yemen
- Echidnopsis inconspicua Bruyns
- Echidnopsis insularis Lavranos - Socotra
- Echidnopsis leachii Lavranos
- Echidnopsis malum (Lavranos) Bruyns - Somalia
- Echidnopsis mijerteina Lavranos - Somalia
- Echidnopsis milleri Lavranos - Socotra
- Echidnopsis montana (R.A.Dyer & E.A.Bruce) P.R.O.Bally - Ethiopia
- Echidnopsis multangula (Forssk.) Chiov. - Arabia
- Echidnopsis planiflora P.R.O.Bally - Somalia, Ethiopia
- Echidnopsis radians Bellerue-Bleck - Kenya
- Echidnopsis repens R.A.Dyer & Verdoorn - Tanzania
- Echidnopsis rubrolutea Plowes - Somalia
- Echidnopsis scutellata (Deflers) A.Berger - Arabia, Kenya
- Echidnopsis seibanica Lavranos - Arabia
- Echidnopsis sharpei A.C.White & B.Sloane - Kenya, Somalia
- Echidnopsis similis Plowes - Somalia
- Echidnopsis socotrana Lavranos - Socotra
- Echidnopsis squamulata (Decne.) P.R.O.Bally - Arabia
- Echidnopsis uraiqatiana Dioli - Eritrea
- Echidnopsis urceolata P.R.O.Bally - Kenya
- Echidnopsis virchowii K.Schum. - Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania
- Echidnopsis watsonii P.R.O.Bally - Somalia
- Echidnopsis yemenensis Plowes - Yemen
- 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
[edit]- ^ Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1871. Botanical Magazine v 97, plate 5930. includes color illustration of E. cereiformis
- ^ Asclepiad Exhibition, Echidnopsis Fockea
- ^ "Wildscreen Arkive". Archived from the original on 2014-03-06. Retrieved 2014-09-18.
- ^ a b 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.
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