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Genus: Kochia

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 > Order: Caryophyllales >  Family: Amaranthaceae . Subfamily: Chenopodioideae

About five species, native to Africa and Eurasia, with two species native to southern Africa, one species that is naturalised and a further species that is cultivated in the region.

Species native to southern Africa

Kochia ciliata

 

Kochia tricophylla

 

Species naturalised in southern Africa

Kochia tomentosa

 

Other species, cultivated in southern Africa

Kochia scoparia (Summer cypresss)

Native to Eurasia.

 

Publications

  • Scott, A.J. 1978. A revision of the Camphorosmoideae (Chenopodiaceae). Feddes Repertorium 89: 101-119.

 

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