Lavrania

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.^[1]

Lavrania
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Apocynaceae
Subfamily:	Asclepiadoideae
Tribe:	Ceropegieae
Genus:	Lavrania Plowes[2]
Species:	L. haagnerae
Binomial name
Lavrania haagnerae Plowes[2]

Taxonomy

The genus and species were first described in 1986.^[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.^[3]