Emicocarpus

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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| status = PE

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Matimele, H.A. |author2=Raimondo, D. |author3=Bandeira, S. |author4=Burrows, J.E. |author5=Darbyshire, I. |author6=Massingue, A.O. |author7=Timberlake, J. |date=2016 |title=Emicocarpus fissifolius. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T85955108A85955412 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T85955108A85955412.en |access-date=23 May 2022}}

| display_parents = 3

| genus = Emicocarpus

| parent_authority = K.Schum. & Schltr.

| species = fissifolius

| authority = K.Schum. & Schltr.

}}

Emicocarpus is a species of plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1900.Schumann, Karl Moritz & Schlechter, Friedrich Richard Rudolf. 1900. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 29. (Beibl. 66): 21.[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40002692 Tropicos, Emicocarpus] It contains only one known species, Emicocarpus fissifolius, native to tropical Africa.[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=97346-1 The International Plant Names Index]