Duvaliandra

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|image_alt = Flowering specimen of Duvaliandra dioscoridis in a pot

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|genus = Duvaliandra

|parent_authority = M.G.Gilbert

|species = dioscoridis

|authority = (Lavranos) M.G. Gilbert

|synonyms = Caralluma dioscoridis Lavranos

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Duvaliandra is a species of plants in the Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1980.[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40037116 Tropicos, Duvaliandra]Gilbert, Michael George. 1980. Cactus and Succulent Journal of Great Britain 42(4): 101 It contains only one known species, Duvaliandra dioscoridis, native to the Socotra Islands in the Indian Ocean.Lavranos, John Jacob. 1972. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 37: t. 3687, p. 1.

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