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Genus: Ocotea (stinkwood genus) Life
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About 300 species worldwide (mainly tropical and
subtropical America, also Madagascar, Africa and one in the Canary Islands), of
which two are indigenous to southern Africa.
Species indigenous to southern Africa
Information from Jordaan (2003).
Ocotea bullata (Stinkwood) |
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Ocotea kenyensis (Transvaal
stinkwood) |
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Species cultivated in southern Africa
Information from Glen (2002).
Publications
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Glen, H.F. 2002. Cultivated plants of
southern Africa. Jacana, Johannesburg.
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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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