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Family: Zygophyllaceae Life
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Eurosid I
Twenty-two genera and 285 species worldwide, of
which seven genera and 52 species are native to southern Africa.
Genera native to southern Africa
List from Retief (2000).
Augea
One species: Augea capensis (in arid region extending from southern
Namibia to Northern Cape and Western Cape). |
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Fagonia
About 30 species (Mediterranean, SW Asia, India, North America, Africa),
with three species native to southern Africa. |
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Neoluederitzia
One species: Neoluederitzia sericeocarpa, which is native to southern
Namibia. |
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Seetzenia
Two species, one native to North Africa and India, and the other,
Seetzenia lanata, native to the Western Cape and Northern Cape. |
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Sisyndite
One species: Sisyndite lanata, which is native to southern Namibia,
Northern Cape and Western Cape. |
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Tribulus (Devil's thorn genus)
About 25 species, worldwide mainly in warm, arid regions, with four species
native to southern Africa. |
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Zygophyllum
About 120 species (Mediterranean to central Asia, Africa and Australia),
with 41 species native to southern Africa. |
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Species cultivated in southern Africa
From Glen (2002).
Guaiacum officinale (Lignum
vitae)
A tree native to the West Indies and Colombia, which yields a very hard wood
(regarded as the hardest wood in the timber trade). |
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Publications
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Glen, H.F. 2002. Cultivated Plants of
Southern Africa. Jacana, Johannesburg.
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Retief, E. 2000. Zygophyllaceae. In: Seed Plants of
Southern Africa (ed. O.A. Leistner). Strelitzia 10: 563-565.
National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
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