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Family: Lophiocarpaceae

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 six species (Africa), with one genus (Corbichonia) and  two species indigenous in southern Africa. Members of this family were previously placed in the Molluginaceae.

Genera indigenous in southern Africa

Corbichonia

Two species, which are both indigenous in southern Africa. 

 

 


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