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the web of life in southern Africa

Family: Adoxaceae

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 II > Dipsacales

Five genera and about 200 species, with one genus and species naturalised, and a further genus and 18 species cultivated in southern Africa.

  

Genera naturalised in southern Africa

List from Plants of southern Africa - an online checklist (SANBI).

Sambucus

One species is naturalised in southern Africa and another three species are cultivated.

 

Other genera, cultivated in southern Africa

List from Glen (2002). The species name is provided in genera that have only one species represented in southern Africa.

Viburnum

Fifteen species cultivated.