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Family: Achariaceae 

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 >  Rosids >  Eurosid I > Order: Malpighiales

Endemic to southern Africa, with three genera and three species.

Genera native or naturalised to southern Africa

Acharia

There is only one species, Acharia tragodes, which is endemic to southern Africa.

Ceratiosicyos

There is only one species, Ceratiosicyos laevis, which is endemic to southern Africa. See KwaZulu-Natal Wildflowers by Elsa Pooley p. 540.

Guthriea

There is only one species, Guthriea capensis, which is endemic to southern Africa.

Publications

  • Killick, D.J.B. 1976. Achariaceae. Flora of southern Africa 22: 128-134.

 

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