Larryleachia is a genus of stapeliad succulent flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae.
SpeciesAlbers and Meve, ed., Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Asclepiadaceae 176-178 (2004)
Larryleachia cactiformis (Hooker) Plowes Larryleachia marlothii (N.E. Brown) Plowes Larryleachia perlata (Dinter) Plowes Larryleachia picta (N.E.Brown) Plowes Larryleachia tirasmontana (Plowes) Plowes
Taxonomy Phylogenetic studies have shown the genus to be monophyletic, and most closely related to the stapeliad genera Richtersveldtia and Notechidnopsis. Marginally more distantly related is a sister branch of related genera including Lavrania and Hoodia.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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