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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Trichilia

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 > Rosids > Eurosid II > Order: Sapindales > Family: Meliaceae

About 85 species, native to tropics and subtropics (mainly America), with three species native to southern Africa.

Species in southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI), Flora of Zimbabwe and Flora of Mozambique.

Trichilia capitata

Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Trichilia dregeana

Trichilia emetica (Natal mahogany)