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Family: Olacaceae Life
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There are about 25 genera and 250 species worldwide
(tropics and subtropics) of which two genera and three species occur in southern
Africa.
Genera in southern Africa
Olax
About 40 species, indigenous to Africa, Madagascar,
tropical Asia to Australia. There are 10 species in Africa of which one,
Olax dissitiflora, occurs in southern Africa.
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Ximenia
Of the eight species, two occur in eastern tropical and
southern Africa and the remainder in America.
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