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Genus: Siphonoglossa

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) >  Eudicotyledons >  Core Eudicots >  Asterids >  Euasterid I > Order: Lamiales>  Family: Acanthaceae

About 8 species, native to Africa and America. There are 3 species native to southern Africa.

Species indigenous to southern Africa

Siphonoglossa leptantha 

 

Siphonoglossa linifolia

 

Siphonoglossa nkandlaensis

 

Publications

  • Immelman, K.L. 1995. Siphonoglossa. Flora of southern Africa 30,3,1:6-10.

 

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