Pachypodium gracilius

Pachypodium gracilius

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Apocynaceae
Genus:	Pachypodium
Species:	P. gracilius
Binomial name
*Pachypodium gracilius* H.Poisson

Pachypodium gracilius is a species of Pachypodium endemic to Madagascar. The plant trunk is pachycaule, and typically short and fat. It produces yellow flowers.

Synonymy

Recent revision of this taxon consider it as a subspecies of P. rosulatum :

Pachypodium rosulatum ssp. gracilius

Pachypodium

General information	Genus overview Morphology Taxonomy Habitats History

Species	P. ambongense P. baronii P. bicolor P. bispinosum P. brevicaule P. cactipes P. decaryi P. densiflorum P. eburneum P. geayi P. gracilius P. horombense P. inopinatum P. lamerei P. lealii P. makayense P. meridionale P. menabeum P. namaquanum P. rosulatum P. rutenbergianum P. saundersii P. sofiense P. succulentum P. windsorii

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