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Boscia albitrunca (Shepherd's tree)

Witgat [Afrikaans]; siPhiso [Swazi]; Mohlôpi [North Sotho]; Xukutsi [Tswana]; Muthobi [Venda]

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 > Rosids > Eurosid II > Order: Brassicales > Family: Capparaceae > Genus: Boscia

 

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Publications

  • Wessels, D.C.J. & Potgieter, M.J. 1997. Observations on the natural grafting of Boscia albitrunca onto Colophospermum mopane and Combretum imberbe. South African Journal of Botany 63: 299–300.