Genus: Spermacoce Life
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Order: Gentianales > Family: Rubiaceae
About 100 species worldwide, with 15 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.
Spermacoce arvensis
Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
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Spermacoce bisepala
Recorded from Zimbabwe.
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Spermacoce chaetocephala
Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
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Spermacoce deserti
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Spermacoce dibrachiata
Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
See
Flora of Zimbabwe.
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Spermacoce filifolia
Recorded from Zimbabwe.
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Spermacoce huillensis
Recorded from Zimbabwe.
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Spermacoce kirkii
Recorded from Mozambique.
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Spermacoce natalensis
See
Flora of Zimbabwe. |
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Spermacoce pusilla
Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
See
Flora of Zimbabwe.
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Spermacoce quadrisulcata |
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Spermacoce radiata
Recorded from Zimbabwe.
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Spermacoce schlechteri
Recorded from Mozambique.
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Spermacoce senensis
See
Flora of Zimbabwe. |
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Spermacoce subvulgata
See
Flora of Zimbabwe. |
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Herbivores in southern Africa
Publications
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Verdcourt, B. 1976. Flora of Tropical East
Africa. Rubiaceae (part 1): 1-414.
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Verdcourt, B. 1989. Rubiaceae. Flora
Zambesiaca 5,1: 1-210.
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