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Genus: Cryptocarya

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) >  magnoliids >  Order: Laurales >  Family: Lauraceae

About 350 species worldwide (pantropical, mainly Indo-Malayan), of which seven occur in southern Africa.

Species native to southern Africa

List from Jordaan (2003).

Cryptocarya angustifolia

 

Cryptocarya latifolia

 

Cryptocarya liebertiana

 

Cryptocarya myrtifolia

 

Cryptocarya transvaalensis

 

Cryptocarya woodii (Cape quince)

 

Cryptocarya wyliei (Red quince)

 

Publications

  • Jordaan, M. 2003. Lauraceae. In Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds), Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 600-601. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. 

 

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