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Family: Phrymaceae

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 >  Asterids >  Euasterid I > Order: Lamiales

About 19 genera and 234 species (worldwide), with one genus (Mimulus) and two species indigenous to southern Africa. A further four species of Mimulus are cultivated in southern Africa.

Genera indigenous to southern Africa

Mimulus

About 150 species, native mainly to temperate America but also in tropical Africa, India and Australia. Two species are indigenous to southern Africa. There are also an additional five species cultivated in southern Africa. 

 
 

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