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]
Echidnopsis angustiloba E.A.Bruce & P.R.O.Bally - Kenya
Echidnopsis archeri P.R.O.Bally - Kenya
Echidnopsis ballyi (Marn.-Lap.) P.R.O.Bally - N Somalia
Echidnopsis virchowii K.Schum. - Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania
Echidnopsis watsonii P.R.O.Bally - Somalia
Echidnopsis yemenensis Plowes - Yemen
Species formerly included[4]
Echidnopsis quadrangula now Caralluma quadrangula
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]
^Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1871. Botanical Magazine v 97, plate 5930. includes color illustration of E. cereiformis
^Asclepiad Exhibition, Echidnopsis Fockea
^"Wildscreen Arkive". Archived from the original on 2014-03-06. Retrieved 2014-09-18.
^ abThe Plant List, genus Echidnopsis
^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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