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Family: Laxmanniaceae

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) >  Monocotyledons >  Order: Asparagales

Fifteen genera and 178 species (Australia, SE Asia, Pacific Islands and Americas). No indigenous species in southern Africa but four species of Cordyline are cultivated in the region.

Genera cultivated in southern Africa

Information from Glen (2002).

Cordyline

Four species, originating from E Asia, Australia and New Zealand, are cultivated in southern Africa. Previously placed in Agavaceae.

 

Publications

  • Glen, H.F. 2002. Cultivated plants of southern Africa. Jacana, Johannesburg.

 

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