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Genus: Tricalysia

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 100 species, native to tropical regions of the Old World, with 17 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.

Tricalysia acocantheroides

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Tricalysia africana

 

Tricalysia allenii

 

Tricalysia cacondensis

 

Tricalysia capensis

 

Tricalysia coriacea

Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Tricalysia delagoensis

 

Tricalysia galpinii

 

Tricalysia ignota

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Tricalysia jasminiflora

Recorded from Zimbabwe. See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Tricalysia junodii

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Tricalysia niamniamensis

Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Tricalysia lanceolata (Jackal coffee)

 

Tricalysia maputensis

 

Tricalysia pallens

Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

 

Tricalysia ruandensis

Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

 

Tricalysia sonderiana (Coast coffee)

 

Publications

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

  • Robbrecht, E. 1979. The African genus Tricalysia A. Rich. (Rubiaceae - Coffeeae). 1. A revision of the species of the subgenus Empogona. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique 49: 239-360.