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Family: Cleomaceae

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 II > Order: Brassicales

There are 10 genera and about 300 species worldwide, with the genus Cleome making up most of the species (275) and this is the only genus in the family that occurs in southern Africa, where there are 21 indigenous species. 

Genera indigenous in southern Africa

Cleome

About 275 species (tropics and warm regions worldwide), of which 21 are indigenous in southern Africa. 

 

 


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