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Genus: Pyrostria
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Order: Gentianales > Family: Rubiaceae
About 45 species, native to Africa, Madagascar and Mauritius,
with two 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.
Pyrostria bibracteata
Recorded from Zimbabwe. See
Flora of Zimbabwe. |
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Pyrostria
hystrix |
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Publications
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Bridson, D.M. 1987. Studies in African
Rubiaceae - Vanguerieae: a new circumscription of Pyrostria and a new
subgenus, Canthium subgen. Bullockia. Kew Bulletin 42:
611-639.
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Bridson, D.M. 1998. Rubiaceae. Flora Zambesiaca 5,2: 211-377.
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