Notechidnopsis

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Speciesbox |image = |display_parents = 3 |genus = Notechidnopsis |parent_authority = Lavranos & Bleck |species = tessellata |authority = (Pillans ) Lavranos & Bleck |synonyms = |synonyms_ref = }}

'''''Notechidnopsis''''' is a group of plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1985.<ref>Lavranos, John Jacob & Bleck, M.B. 1985. Cactus and Succulent Journal (Los Angeles) 57(6): 256</ref><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40037120 Tropicos, genus ''Notechidnopsis'' ]</ref> It contains only one recognized species, '''''Notechidnopsis tessellata''''', native to Cape Province in South Africa.<ref>AFPD. 2008. African Flowering Plants Database - Base de Donnees des Plantes a Fleurs D'Afrique.</ref>

;formerly included<ref>[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Notechidnopsis The Plant List, genus ''Notechidnopsis'']</ref> moved to ''Richtersveldia'' *''Notechidnopsis columnaris'' <small>(Nel) Lavranos & Bleck</small> synonym of ''Richtersveldia columnaris'' <small>(Nel) Meve & Liede</small>

;Taxonomy Phylogenetic studies have shown this genus to most closely related to the stapeliad genera ''Richtersveldia'' and ''Larryleachia''. Marginally more distantly related is a sister branch of related genera including ''Lavrania'' and ''Hoodia''.<ref>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.</ref>

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Category:Monotypic Apocynaceae genera Category:Flora of South Africa Category:Asclepiadoideae Category:Taxa named by John Jacob Lavranos