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Genus: Tylophora

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

Fifty species, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World, with ten species native to southern Africa and an additional species that is cultivated in the region.

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI) and Flora of Zimbabwe.

Tylophora anomala

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Tylophora badia

 

Tylophora coddii

 

Tylophora conspicua

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Tylophora cordata

 

Tylophora flanaganii

 

Tylophora fleckii

 

Tylophora lycioides

 

Tylophora simiana

 

Tylophora umbellata

 

Other species, cultivated in southern Africa

List from Glen (2002).

Tylophora asthmatica

Native from India to Malaysia.

 

Publications

  • Glen, H.F. 2002. Cultivated Plants of Southern Africa. Jacana, Johannesburg.