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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Cryptolepis

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: Gentianales > Family: Apocynaceae > Subfamily: Periplocoideae

About 25 species, native to Africa, Madagascar and Asia, with eight species native to southern Africa.

Species native to southern Africa

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

Cryptolepis apiculata

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Cryptolepis capensis

 

Cryptolepis cryptolepidioides

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Cryptolepis decidua

 

Cryptolepis delagoensis

 

Cryptolepis oblongifolia

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Cryptolepis obtusa

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Cryptolepis producta

Recorded from Zimbabwe.