Dirachma

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Transactionsofro311888roy 0563.jpg |image_upright = |image_alt = |image_caption = Illustration depicting the woody species ''Dirachma socotrana'' |parent_authority = Hutch.<ref name=APGIII2009>{{Cite journal |last=Angiosperm Phylogeny Group |year=2009 |title=An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=161 |issue=2 |pages=105–121 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x |doi-access=free |hdl=10654/18083 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> |taxon = Dirachma |authority = Schweinf. ex Balf.f.<ref name=IPNI>{{cite web|title=International Plant Names Index|url=http://ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=16809-1&back_page=%2Fipni%2FeditAdvPlantNameSearch.do%3Ffind_infragenus%3D%26find_isAPNIRecord%3Dtrue%26find_geoUnit%3D%26find_includePublicationAuthors%3Dtrue%26find_addedSince%3D%26find_family%3D%26find_genus%3DDirachma%26find_sortByFamily%3Dtrue%26find_isGCIRecord%3Dtrue%26find_infrafamily%3D%26find_rankToReturn%3Dall%26find_publicationTitle%3D%26find_authorAbbrev%3D%26find_infraspecies%3D%26find_includeBasionymAuthors%3Dtrue%26find_modifiedSince%3D%26find_isIKRecord%3Dtrue%26find_species%3D%26output_format%3Dnormal|accessdate=7 September 2013}}</ref> |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = *''Dirachma socotrana'' *''Dirachma somalensis'' |range_map = Map-dirachmaceae.PNG |range_map_caption = Distribution of genus ''Dirachma'' }}

'''''Dirachma''''' is the sole genus of the family '''Dirachmaceae'''. The genus had been monotypic, its sole species being the woody plant ''Dirachma socotrana'', until a second, herbaceous, species, ''Dirachma somalensis'', was discovered in Somalia and described in 1991.<ref>Link, D.A. 1991. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3668440 ''Dirachma somalensis'' D.A.Link ''sp. nov.'' A New Species of a Remarkable and Highly Endangered Monogeneric Family.] ''Bulletin du Jardin botanique national de Belgique / Bulletin van de National Plantentuin van België'', 61: 3-13.</ref>

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Category:Rosales Category:Rosales genera Category:Taxa named by Isaac Bayley Balfour Category:Taxa named by Georg August Schweinfurth Category:Flora of Somalia Category:Flora of Socotra Category:Taxa named by John Hutchinson (botanist)