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Family:
Myrsinaceae
Life
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Worldwide there are about 40 genera and 1000 species, with
4 genera and 7 species in southern Africa.
Genera indigenous to southern Africa
List from Ngwenya (2000).
Embelia
About 130 species, native to Asia, Australia, the
Mascarene Islands and tropical Africa, with 2 species in southern Africa. |
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Maesa About 200
species, native to tropics of the Old World, with 2 species in southern
Africa. |
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Myrsine About 7
species, native from Africa to East Asia, with 2 species in southern Africa. |
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Rapanea About
100 species, native to tropical regions and through most of Africa, with 2
species in southern Africa: Rapanea
melanophloeos and Rapanea gilliana. |
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Genera cultivated in southern Africa
Ardisia
Ardisia crenata (Coralberry
tree, Coral Bush) is a declared
Category 1 invasive plant for the provinces of Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal
and Mpumalanga, meaning that you can't cultivate it in these regions because
of its invasive potential. It is not listed as a naturalised species in
Ngwenya (2000) or in Ngwenya and Bredenkamp (2003). |
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