|
Ocotea (stinkwood genus) 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 300 species worldwide (mainly tropical and
subtropical America, also Madagascar, Africa and one in the Canary Islands), of
which two are native to southern Africa and a further species is cultivated in
the region.
Species native to southern Africa
Information from Jordaan (2003) and
Flora of Zimbabwe.
Ocotea bullata (Stinkwood)
Native to Afromontane forests of South Africa from Cape Town to Limpopo. |
|
Ocotea kenyensis (Transvaal
stinkwood) Native distribution includes Kenya, Tanzania,
Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland and South Africa (and Limpopo, Mpumalanga,
KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape). |
|
Species cultivated in southern Africa
Information from Glen (2002).
Publications
-
Glen, H.F. 2002. Cultivated plants of
southern Africa. Jacana, Johannesburg.
-
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.
|
