{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Monolluma fanerógamas Apocynaceae.jpg |image_caption = Flower of ''Monolluma'' species |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Monolluma |authority=Plowes<ref name=POWO_986816-1/> |synonyms_ref=<ref name=POWO_986816-1/> |synonyms = {{Genus list |Cylindrilluma|Plowes |Sanguilluma|Plowes |Sulcolluma|Plowes }} }}
'''''Monolluma''''' is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1995.<ref>Plowes, Darrel C. H. 1995. Haseltonia 3: 64</ref> All the species had previously been included in the genus ''Caralluma'', some also in ''Boucerosia'', ''Cylindrilluma'', ''Desmidorchis'', ''Echidnopsis'', ''Sanguilluma'' and ''Sulcolluma''. Some members of the genus can be found in Oman, Saudi Arabia and Yemen in Arabia with ''Monolluma socotrana'' found on Socotra in the Indian Ocean, and in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia in Africa.<ref name=POWO_986816-1/>
==Species== [[File: Caralluma socotrana 01.jpg|thumb|250px|left|''Monolluma socotrana'', Kenya]] {{As of|2023|June}}, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:<ref name=POWO_986816-1/> *''Monolluma cicatricosa'' <small>(Deflers) Plowes</small> *''Monolluma hexagona'' <small>(Lavranos) Meve & Liede</small> *''Monolluma quadrangula'' <small>(Forssk.) Plowes</small> *''Monolluma socotrana'' <small>(Balf.f.) Meve & Liede</small> *''Monolluma solenophora'' <small>(Lavranos) Meve & Liede</small>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=POWO_986816-1>{{Cite POWO|title=''Monolluma'' Plowes|id=986816-1|access-date=2023-06-20|mode=cs1}}</ref> }}
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Category:Asclepiadoideae Category:Apocynaceae genera