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Order: Canellales
Life
> eukaryotes >
Archaeoplastida >
Chloroplastida
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Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants)
> Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants)
> Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering
plants)
> magnoliids
Nine genera and about 88 species in two families, Canellaceae
and Winteraceae. Only one species is indigenous to southern Africa and there is
also one species cultivated in the region.
Families encountered in southern Africa
Canellaceae
Five genera and 13 species (Central and South America, Africa and
Madagascar), with one species, Warburgia salutaris (Pepper-bark
tree), indigenous to southern Africa. |
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Winteraceae
Four genera and 60-90 species (Central and South America, Madagascar, SE
Asia, Australia and New Zealand), with no species indigenous to southern
Africa. One species,
Drimys winteri (Winter's bark), is cultivated in the region. |
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