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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Pterodiscus

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: Lamiales > Family: Pedaliaceae

All 18 species are native to Africa and five of them occur in southern Africa.

Species native to southern Africa

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

Pterodiscus aurantiacus

 

Pterodiscus elliottii

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Pterodiscus luridus

 

Pterodiscus ngamicus

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Pterodiscus speciosus