''Ophionella '' is a group 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 ...

first described as a genus in 1981. It contains only one accepted species, ''Ophionella arcuata'', native to

Eastern Cape Province The Eastern Cape is one of the provinces of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are East London and Gqeberha. The second largest province in the country (at 168,966 km2) after Northern Cape, it was formed in 199 ...

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.Brown, Nicholas Edward. 1909. in Dyer, William Turner Thiselton, Flora Capensis 4(1): 870
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{{Taxonbar, from1=Q6051554, from2=Q18077401 Monotypic Apocynaceae genera Flora of South Africa Asclepiadoideae Taxa named by N. E. Brown