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Genus: Peristrophe
Life
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Chloroplastida
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> Eudicotyledons > Order: Lamiales
> Family: Acanthaceae
About 15 species, occurring
from Africa to the East Indies. In southern Africa there are nine native
species and
one cultivated species.
Species native to southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI) and
Flora of Zimbabwe.
Peristrophe cernua (False
Buckwheat) [= Peristrophe natalensis]
umhlolowane [Xhosa]; uhlalwane oluncane [Zulu] See
KwaZulu-Natal Wildflowers by Elsa Pooley p. 436. |
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Peristrophe cliffordii |
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Peristrophe decorticans |
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Peristrophe gillilandiorum
See
Flora of Zimbabwe. |
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Peristrophe grandibracteata |
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Peristrophe hereroensis |
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Peristrophe namibiensis |
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Peristrophe paniculata |
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Peristrophe transvaalensis |
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Other species, cultivated in southern Africa
List from
Glen (2002).
Publications
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