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Periploca laevigata
Periploca laevigata is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae, native to the Canary Islands, the Savage Islands and Cape Verde.
The species was described by William Aiton and was published in Hortus Kewensis in 1789. Its Spanish names are cornicabra or cornica. "Cornicabra" means goat horn.
The plant is native to the Canary Islands, the Savage Islands and Cape Verde, reaching its northernmost distribution in Sicily, in the Aegadian Islands. In Cape Verde they occur on the islands of Brava, Fogo, Santa Luzia, Santiago, Santo Antão and São Nicolau. Some authors put the Cape Verdean subspecies as separate (as Periploca chevalieri, Browicz).
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Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
