Lavrania

{{Short description|Genus of plants}} {{Speciesbox |image = Lavrania haagnerae - Kirstenbosch NBG.jpg |status = LC |status_system = IUCN3.1 |status_ref = <ref name=IUCN2004>{{cite iucn |last1=Craven |first1=P. |date=2004 |title=''Lavrania haagnerae'' |volume=2004 |article-number=e.T46823A11083872 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T46823A11083872.en |access-date=2023-02-14 }}</ref> |display_parents = 3 |genus = Lavrania |parent_authority = Plowes<ref name=POWO_924962-1/> |species = haagnerae |authority = Plowes<ref name=POWO_924962-1/> }}

'''''Lavrania''''' is a monospecific genus of plants in family Apocynaceae. Its only species is '''''Lavrania haagnerae''''', endemic to Namibia.<ref name=POWO_924962-1>{{cite web |title=''Lavrania'' Lavrania |work=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:924962-1 |access-date=2023-02-14 }}</ref> Its natural habitat is rocky areas.<ref name=IUCN2004/>

==Taxonomy== The genus and species were first described in 1986.<ref name=POWO_924962-1/> 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''.<ref name=BruyKlakHana14>{{Cite journal |last1=Bruyns |first1=P. |last2=Klak |first2=C. |last3=Hanacek |first3=P. |date=2014 |title=Evolution of the stapeliads (Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae) – repeated major radiation across Africa in an Old World group |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |volume=77 |issue=1 |pages=251–263 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2014.03.022 |pmid=24721383 |bibcode=2014MolPE..77..251B |name-list-style=amp }}</ref>

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Category:Asclepiadoideae Category:Monotypic Apocynaceae genera Category:Flora of Namibia Category:Namaqualand Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot