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Genus: Sophora

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 I > FabalesFabaceae >  Subfamily: Papilionoideae

About 60-70 species (warm regions worldwide), with one species, Sophora inhambensis, native to southern Africa, and an additional four species that are cultivated in the region.

Species native to southern Africa

Sophora inhambensis

 

Other species, cultivated in southern Africa

List from Glen (2002).

Sophora davidii

Native to China.

 

Sophora microphylla

Native to New Zealand.

 

Sophora mollis

Native to Asia. Includes subspecies griffithii (recorded as Sophora griffithii in Glen, 2002).

 

Sophora tetraptera (New Zealand laburnum, Kowhai)

Native to New Zealand.

 

Links

Publications

  • Glen, H.F. 2002. Cultivated Plants of Southern Africa. Jacana, Johannesburg.

 


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