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Gomphrena

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Core Eudicots >  Order: Caryophyllales >  Family: Amaranthaceae > Subfa,mily: Gomphrenoideae

About 120 species, found mainly in the New World tropics and subtropics and also Australia; 2 species have become naturalised as weeds in southern Africa

Species naturalised in southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI).

Gomphrena celosioides

 

Gomphrena globosa

 

 


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