Lavrania is a monospecific genus of plants in family Apocynaceae.

Its only species is Lavrania haagnerae, endemic to Namibia.

[2] Its natural habitat is rocky areas.

[2] Phylogenetic studies have shown the genus to be monophyletic, and most closely related to the stapeliad genus Hoodia.

Marginally more distantly related is a sister branch of related genera including Larryleachia, Richtersveldia and Notechidnopsis.