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Family: Tamaricaceae (tamarisks)
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plants) > Core Eudicots
> Order: Caryophyllales
Four genera and about 75 species (Old World,
mainly Northern Hemisphere), of which one genus occurs in southern
Africa with one species indigenous and two naturalised.
Genera indigenous in southern Africa
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Tamarix (tamarisks)
About 50 species (Old World, mainly
Mediterranean basin) of which one species is indigenous
and two are naturalised in southern Africa. The
naturalised species are Tamarix chinensis (Chinese
tamarisk) and Tamarix ramosissima (Pink
tamarisk, Perstamarisk) and they are
declared Category 1
invasive plants in the Northern Cape, Western Cape and Eastern
Cape, and Category 3 invasive plants in the rest of South Africa. |
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