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Family: Ochnaceae

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 >  Rosids >  Eurosid I > Order: Malpighiales

About 30 genera and 250 species (mainly pantropical), with two genera and 14 species native to southern Africa.

Genera in southern Africa

Brackenridgea 

About 12 species (SE Asia, Australia, Africa and Madagascar), with two native to southern Africa.

 

Ochna

About 86 species (Africa, Mascarenes and Asia). There are 12 species in southern Africa (as defined in Flora of Southern Africa) and twenty species if one includes Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

Ochna serrulata (Carnival ochna)
 

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