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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Pyrenacantha

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 > Family: Icacinaceae

About 25-30 species, native to Africa, Madagascar, Indochina and Malesia, with five 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.

Pyrenacantha grandiflora

 

Pyrenacantha kamassana

 

Pyrenacantha kaurabassana

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Pyrenacantha kirkii

Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Pyrenacantha scandens