Notechidnopsis is a species of plants in the Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1985. It contains only one recognized species, Notechidnopsis tessellata , native to Cape Province in South Africa. formerly included moved to Riocreuxia \n* Notechidnopsis columnaris (Nel) Lavranos & Bleck synonym of Riocreuxia torulosa Decne.Taxonomy Phylogenetic studies have shown this genus to most closely related to the Richtersveldtia and Larryleachia genera of stapeliads. Marginally more distantly related is a sister branch of related genera including Lavrania and Hoodia.