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Genus: Berchemia

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: Rosales >  Family: Rhamnaceae

There are 12 species of which two occur in southern Africa.

Species indigenous to southern Africa

Berchemia discolor (Brown ivory)

  

Berchemia zeyheri

  
 

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