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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Mollugo

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 > Order: Caryophyllales > Family: Molluginaceae

About 30 species (tropics and subtropics), with six species native to southern Africa.

Species native to southern Africa

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

Mollugo cerviana

See Flora of Zimbabwe, where it is split into var. cerviana and var. spathulifolia.

 

Mollugo namaquensis

 

Mollugo nudicaulis

Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique, but considered naturalised by POSA. See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Mollugo pusilla

 

Mollugo tenella

 

Mollugo walteri