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Genus: Ocotea (stinkwood genus) Life
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About 300 species worldwide (mainly tropical and
subtropical America, also Madagascar, Africa and one in the Canary Islands), of
which two are native to southern Africa and a further species is cultivated in
the region.
Species native to southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI),
Flora of Zimbabwe and
Flora of
Mozambique.
Ocotea bullata (Stinkwood)
Native to Afromontane forests of South Africa from Cape Town to Limpopo. |
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Ocotea kenyensis (Transvaal
stinkwood) Native distribution includes Kenya, Tanzania,
Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland and South Africa (and Limpopo, Mpumalanga,
KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape). |
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Species cultivated in southern Africa
Information from Glen (2002).
Publications
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Glen, H.F. 2002. Cultivated plants of
southern Africa. Jacana, Johannesburg.
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Jordaan, M. 2003. Lauraceae. In
Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds), Plants of southern Africa: an
annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 600-601. National Botanical
Institute, Pretoria.
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