Larryleachia

Larryleachia is a genus of stapeliad succulent flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae.

Species[1]
Taxonomy

Larryleachia
Larryleachia cactiformis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Tribe: Ceropegieae
Genus: Larryleachia
Plowes
Synonyms

Leachia Plowes (non Cassini)

Phylogenetic studies have shown the genus to be monophyletic, and most closely related to the stapeliad genera Richtersveldtia and Notechidnopsis. Marginally more distantly related is a sister branch of related genera including Lavrania and Hoodia.[2]

References

  1. Albers and Meve, ed., Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Asclepiadaceae 176-178 (2004)
  2. 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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