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Genus: Avonia
Life
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Archaeoplastida >
Chloroplastida
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> Order: Caryophyllales
> Family: Portulacaceae
Native to Somalia and southern Africa. Fourteen
species native to southern Africa, concentrated mainly in Namibia
and the Northern Cape.
Species native to southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI).
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Avonia
albissima
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Avonia
dinteri |
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Avonia
gariepensis |
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Avonia
herreana |
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Avonia
mallei |
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Avonia
papyracea |
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Avonia
perplexa |
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Avonia
prominens |
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Avonia
quinaria
See Burgoyne & Condy (1999). |
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Avonia
recurvata |
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Avonia
rhodesica |
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Avonia
ruschii |
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Avonia
ustulata |
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Avonia
variabilis |
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Publications
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Burgoyne, P.M. & Condy, G. 1999. Avonia quinaria
subsp. alstonii. Flowering Plants of Africa 56: 58–60.
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Williamson, G. 1995. A new Avonia (Portulacaceae)
from the northwestern Cape Province, Republic of South
Africa. Cactus and Succulent Journal (US) 67: 104–107.
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Williamson, G. 1997. New combinations in the genus Avonia
(Portulacaceae). British Cactus and Succulent
Journal 15: 208.
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