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Genus: Nuxia

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>  Family: Scrophulariaceae

About 40 species, native to Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Isalnds, with about 5 species in southern Africa. This genus was previously placed in the Buddlejaceae (no longer a valid family) and before that in the Loganiaceae.

Species indigenous to southern Africa

Nuxia congesta

 

Nuxia floribunda (Forest Nuxia)

Nuxia floribunda

Nuxia  glomerulata

 

Nuxia gracilis

 

Nuxia oppositifolia

 
 

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