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Genus: Catunaregam

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 > Euasterid I > Order: Gentianales > Family: Rubiaceae

About 10-15 species, occuring in tropical Africa, Madagascar and Asia, with three 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.

Catunaregam obovata

 

Catunaregam swynnertonii

Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Catunaregam taylorii (Thorny bone-apple)

[= Catunaregam spinosa]

 

Publications

  • Bridson, D.M. & Verdcourt, B. 1988. Flora of Tropical East Africa. Rubiaceae (part 2): 415-747.