Notechidnopsis is a group of plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1985.
[1][2] It contains only one recognized species, Notechidnopsis tessellata, native to Cape Province in South Africa.
[3] moved to Riocreuxia 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.
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