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Genus: Podranea

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: Bignoniaceae

One or two species, native to Africa: Podranea ricasoliana is found at Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape but may be the same species as Podranea brycei from Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique.

 

Podranea sp. in Cape Town garden [photo H. Robertson, Iziko ©]

Species indigenous to southern Africa

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

Podranea ricasoliana

 
Podranea brycei  

 

 

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