''Socotrella'' is a monotypic genus of

plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...

in 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 ...

. It contains the single species ''Socotrella dolichocnema'', which is

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 ...

Socotra Socotra or Soqotra (; ar, سُقُطْرَىٰ ; so, Suqadara) is an island of the Republic of Yemen in the Indian Ocean, under the ''de facto'' control of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, a secessionist participant in Yemen’s ...

References

*Bruyns, P. V. and A. G. Miller. (2002). ''Socotrella'', a new genus of stapeliad (Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae) from the island of Socotra. ''Novon'' 12:3 330–333. Asclepiadoideae Vulnerable plants Endemic flora of Socotra Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Monotypic Apocynaceae genera {{Apocynaceae-stub