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Family: Frankeniaceae

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

Two genera and 81 species (most continents but patchily distributed), with one genus (Frankenia) and three species indigenous in southern Africa.

Genera indigenous to southern Africa

Frankenia

About 80 species (patchily distributed globally), of which three are indigenous in southern Africa.

 

 


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