Lavrania is a monospecific genus of plant in family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1986. It is native to Namibia.[1]
Lavrania | |
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Lavrania haagnerae | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Asterids |
Order: | Gentianales |
Family: | Apocynaceae |
Subfamily: | Asclepiadoideae |
Genus: | Lavrania Plowes |
Type species | |
Lavrania haagnerae Plowes |
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.[2]
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