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This is a list of Southern African trees, shrubs, suffrutices, geoxyles and lianes, and is intended to cover Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. [1] The notion of 'indigenous' is of necessity a blurred concept, and is clearly a function of both time and political boundaries.
List of liverworts of South Africa – Non-vascular land plants with a gametophyte-dominant life cycle recorded from South Africa; List of lycophytes of South Africa – Spore bearing vascular plants of the division Lycopodiophyta recorded from South Africa; List of mosses of South Africa – Small, non-vascular flowerless plants recorded from ...
List of cycads of South Africa – Seed producing vascular plants of the division Cycadophyta recorded from South Africa; Lists of flowering plants of South Africa – List of lists of flowering plants recorded from South Africa; List of hornworts of South Africa – Non-vascular spore-bearing plants in the division Anthocerotophyta recorded ...
Most spurges are herbs, but some, especially in the tropics, are shrubs or trees. Some are succulent and resemble cacti because of convergent evolution. [2] 23,420 species of vascular plant have been recorded in South Africa, making it the sixth most species-rich country in the world and the most species-rich country on the African continent.
Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants (anthophytes) in the order Gentianales, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that are recognizable by simple, opposite leaves with interpetiolar stipules and sympetalous actinomorphic flowers.
Asteraceae or Compositae is a family of flowering plants (anthophytes) in the order Asterales. Asteraceae (commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, [1] or sunflower family), is a very large and widespread family, [2] [3] which includes over 32,000 currently accepted species, in over 1,900 genera in 13 subfamilies. [4]
Myrsine melanophloeos, commonly known as Cape beech, Kaapse boekenhout , isiCalabi or isiQwane sehlati [2] is a dense evergreen tree that is native to the afromontane forests of Africa, ranging from Nigeria and Sudan to South Africa. [1] Outside forests they are also commonly encountered along stream banks and in gullies.
Cassine peragua, also known as Cape saffron, bastard saffron and forest spoonwood, is a medium-sized tree with fragrant flowers, decorative fruits and a saffron-coloured trunk. It is indigenous to the Afro-montane forests of South Africa. [2]