Dirachma | |
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Illustration depicting the woody species Dirachma socotrana | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Rosales |
Family: | Dirachmaceae Hutch.[2] |
Genus: | Dirachma Schweinf. ex Balf.f.[1] |
Species | |
Distribution of genus Dirachma |
Dirachma is the sole genus of the family Dirachmaceae. The genus had been monotypic, its sole species being the woody plant Dirachma socotrana, until a second, herbaceous, species, Dirachma somalensis, was discovered in Somalia and described in 1991.[3]