Echidnopsis

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Not to be confused with Echinopsis.

Echidnopsis
Echidnopsis.jpg
Echidnopsis dammaniana
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Tribe: Ceropegieae
Genus: Echidnopsis
Hook.f.
Type species
Echidnopsis cereiformis
Hook.f.

Echidnopsis is a genus of succulent, cactus-like plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1871.[1] They are native to eastern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.[2][3]

Accepted species[4]
  1. E.A.Bruce & P.R.O.Bally - Kenya
  2. P.R.O.Bally - Kenya
  3. (Marn.-Lap.) P.R.O.Bally - N Somalia
  4. N.E.Br. ex Hook.f. - Arabia
  5. P.R.O.Bally - N Somalia
  6. Hook.f. - South Africa
  7. Lavranos - Somalia
  8. P.R.O.Bally - N Somalia
  9. Echidnopsis dammaniana Sprenger - Eritrea
  10. Lavranos - Kenya
  11. Thulin & Hjertson - Yemen
  12. Bruyns
  13. Lavranos - Socotra
  14. Lavranos
  15. (Lavranos) Bruyns - Somalia
  16. Lavranos - Somalia
  17. Lavranos - Socotra
  18. (R.A.Dyer & E.A.Bruce) P.R.O.Bally - Ethiopia
  19. (Forssk.) Chiov. - Arabia
  20. P.R.O.Bally - Somalia, Ethiopia
  21. Bellerue-Bleck - Kenya
  22. R.A.Dyer & Verdoorn - Tanzania
  23. Plowes - Somalia
  24. (Deflers) A.Berger - Arabia, Kenya
  25. Lavranos - Arabia
  26. A.C.White & B.Sloane - Kenya, Somalia
  27. Plowes - Somalia
  28. Lavranos - Socotra
  29. (Decne.) P.R.O.Bally - Arabia
  30. Dioli - Eritrea
  31. P.R.O.Bally - Kenya
  32. K.Schum. - Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania
  33. P.R.O.Bally - Somalia
  34. Plowes - Yemen
Species formerly included[4]

Echidnopsis quadrangula now

Taxonomy

Phylogenetic studies have shown the genus to be monophyletic, and most closely related to the genus Rhytidocaulon. Marginally more distantly related is a sister branch comprising the genus Pseudolithos and the widespread Caralluma stapeliads of North Africa.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1871. Botanical Magazine v 97, plate 5930. includes color illustration of E. cereiformis
  2. ^ Asclepiad Exhibition, Echidnopsis Fockea
  3. ^ "Wildscreen Arkive". Archived from the original on 2014-03-06. Retrieved 2014-09-18.
  4. ^ a b The Plant List, genus Echidnopsis
  5. ^ 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.
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