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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Coptosperma

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 50 species, native to Africa and Madagascar, 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.

Coptosperma littorale

[= Tarenna littoralis]

 

Coptosperma neurophyllum

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Coptosperma nigrescens

[= Tarenna nigrescens]

 

Coptosperma rhodesiacum

[= Tarenna zimbabwensis]

 

Coptosperma supra-axillare

[= Tarenna barbertonensis, Tarenna graveolens, Tarenna supra-axillaris]

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Coptosperma zygoon

[= Tarenna zygoon]