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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Maesa

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 > Asterids > Order: Ericales > Family: Primulaceae

About 150 species, native from Old World tropics to Japan, Australia and the Pacific, with two species native to southern Africa. Previously placed in the Maesaceae.

Species native to southern Africa

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

Maesa alnifolia

 

Maesa lanceolata

See PlantzAfrica and Flora of Zimbabwe.