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Family:
Menispermaceae Life
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Seventy genera and 420 species (Pantropical, extending into
temperate regions), with nine genera and 16 species native to southern Africa.
Genera native to southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI),
Flora of Zimbabwe and
Flora of
Mozambique.
Albertisia
About 17 species (tropical and subtropical Africa and Southeast Asia, with
one species, Albertisia delagoensis, native to southern Africa
(northern KwaZulu-Natal and Mozambique). |
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Antizoma
Two species, endemic to the arid regions of southern Africa. |
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Cissampelos
About 20 species (North and South America, Asia, Africa, Madagascar), with
five species native to southern Africa. |
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Cocculus
About 10 species (North America, Africa, Socotra, Asia to Australia), with
one species, Cocculus hirsutus,
native to southern Africa. |
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Dioscoreophyllum
Three species in tropical Africa, of which one
Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii
occurs in southern Africa (Zimbabwe and Mozambique). |
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Jateorhiza
Two species in tropical Africa, of which one
Jateorhiza palmata
occurs in southern Africa (Zimbabwe and Mozambique). |
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Stephania
About 30 species (Africa, India, China to New Guinea), with one species,
Stephania abyssinica, native to
southern Africa. |
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Tiliacora
About 20 species (Old World tropics), with one species,
Tiliacora
funifera, native to southern Africa. |
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Tinospora
About 35 species (tropical Africa, Madagascar, Asia to Australia, Pacific),
with three species native to southern Africa . |
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Triclisia
Ten species distributed in tropical Africa and Madagascar, of which one
Triclisia sacleuxii is recorded in southern Africa (Mozambique). |
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Publications
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Jordaan, M. 2000. Menispermaceae. In: Seed Plants of
Southern Africa (ed. O.A. Leistner). Strelitzia 10: 356-359.
National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
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Glen, H.F. 2002. Cultivated Plants of
Southern Africa. Jacana, Johannesburg.
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