Larryleachia

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}

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| image_caption = Larryleachia cactiformis

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| taxon = Larryleachia

| authority = Plowes

| synonyms = Leachia Plowes (non Cassini)

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Larryleachia is a genus of stapeliad succulent flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae.

;Species[https://books.google.com/books?id=CpSWiIQZLnEC&pg=PA176&lpg=PA176 Albers and Meve, ed., Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Asclepiadaceae 176-178 (2004)]

• Larryleachia cactiformis (Hooker) Plowes
• Larryleachia marlothii (N.E. Brown) Plowes
• Larryleachia perlata (Dinter) Plowes
• Larryleachia picta (N.E.Brown) Plowes
• Larryleachia tirasmontana (Plowes) Plowes

;Taxonomy

Phylogenetic studies have shown the genus to be monophyletic, and most closely related to the stapeliad genera Richtersveldtia and Notechidnopsis. Marginally more distantly related is a sister branch of related genera including Lavrania and Hoodia.P. Bruyns, C. Klak, P. Hanacek: Evolution of the stapeliads (Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae) - repeated major radiation across Africa in an Old World group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 2014. v. 77, no. 1, p. 251--263. ISSN 1055-7903.