''Ischnolepis'' is a species of plants in the family

Apocynaceae Apocynaceae (from ''Apocynum'', Greek for "dog-away") is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, stem succulents, and vines, commonly known as the dogbane family, because some taxa were used as dog poison Members of the ...

first described as a genus in 1909.Tropicos, genus ''Ischnolepis''
/ref> It contains only one known recognized species, ''Ischnolepis graminifolia'',

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

.The Plant List, genus Ischnolepis
/ref>Venter, H. J. T. & R. L. Verhoeven. 1997. A tribal classification of the Periplocoideae (Apocynaceae). Taxon 46: 705–720.

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q5921080, from2=Q15357807 Endemic flora of Madagascar Periplocoideae Monotypic Apocynaceae genera Taxa named by Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie Taxa named by Henri Lucien Jumelle