Caralluma burchardii is a fleshy and superficially cactus-like plant that belongs to the genus Caralluma in the family Apocynaceae. This species is native to the eastern Canary Islands archipelago and adjacent Morocco. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Green algae land plants (embryophytes) non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses vascular plants (tracheophytes) seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongue ferns seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families Gentianaceae (gentian family) Apocynaceae (dogbane family) Gelsemiaceae Loganiaceae (logania family) Rubiaceae (coffee family) The Gentianales are an order of flowering plants, included within the asterid group of dicotyledons. ... Genera See text The Family Apocynaceae or dogbane family of flowering plants includes trees, shrubs, herbs, or lianas. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Genera See text The Family Apocynaceae or dogbane family of flowering plants includes trees, shrubs, herbs, or lianas. ... Canaries redirects here. ...

On the Canary Islands it is found on the islands of Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria, the Tindaya mountains, and La Oliva with more on the Los Lobos Island and on Graciosa. Fuerteventura, a Spanish island, is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. ... Lanzarote, a Spanish island, is the easternmost of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean ca. ... Gran Canaria, rarely Grand Canary (archaic), is the second largest island of the Canary Islands, an archipelago located in the Atlantic Ocean 210 km from the northwest coast of Africa and belonging to Spain. ... La Oliva is a Canarian municipality in the northern portion of the island of Fuerteventura in the Las Palmas province in the Canary Islands The population is 14,042 (ISTAC, 2003), its density is 39. ... Graciosa Island or commonly La Graciosa (Spanish for graceful) is an island located 2 km north of the lsland of Lanzarote with the strait named Río. ...

This stem succulent has flowers which are coloured green to yellow, densely covered with white hais in the middle, and violet to maroon in a shape of the star.

There are two subspecies: In zoology, as in other branches of biology, subspecies is the rank immediately subordinate to a species. ...

• Caralluma burchardii subsp. burchardii. Canary Islands.
• Caralluma burchardii subsp. maura. Morocco.