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Genus: Huernia

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: Apocynaceae > Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae

About 64 species, native to Africa and Arabian Peninsula, with 40 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.

Huernia barbata

 

Huernia bayeri

 

Huernia blyderiverensis

 

Huernia brevirostris

 

Huernia campanulata

 

Huernia clavigera

 

Huernia echidnopsioides

 

Huernia guttata

 

Huernia hallii

 

Huernia hislopii

Recorded from Zimbabwe. See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Huernia humilis

 

Huernia hystrix

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Huernia kennedyana

 

Huernia kirkii

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Huernia levyi

 

Huernia loeseneriana

 

Huernia longii

 

Huernia longituba

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Huernia namaquensis

 

Huernia nouhuysii

 

Huernia occulta

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Huernia oculata

 

Huernia pendula

 

Huernia piersii

 

Huernia pillansii

 

Huernia plowesii

 

Huernia praestans

 

Huernia procumbens

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Huernia quinta

 

Huernia stapelioides

 

Huernia thudichumii

 

Huernia thuretii

 

Huernia transvaalensis

 

Huernia urceolata

 

Huernia verekeri

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Huernia volkartii

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Huernia whitesloaneana

 

Huernia witzenbergensis

 

Huernia x distincta

 

Huernia zebrina

See Flora of Zimbabwe, where it is split into the sub-species H. z. magniflora and H. z. zebrina.