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Genus:
Lysimachia Life
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Chloroplastida
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plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Asterids > Order: Ericales
> Family: Primulaceae
About 150 species, ocurring in temperate and warm temperate
regions. Three species are native to southern Africa and a further two species
are cultivated in the region. Previously placed in the Myrsinaceae.
Species native to southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI),
Flora of
Zimbabwe and
Flora of Mozambique.
Lysimachia africana
Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. |
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Lysimachia nutans |
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Lysimachia ruhmeriana |
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Other species, cultivated in southern Africa
List from Glen (2002).
Lysimachia ephemerum
Native to southwestern Europe and North Africa. |
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Lysimachia nummularia
(Creeping-jenny)
Native to Europe. |
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