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Genus: Gazania
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Gazania
sp. growing in Cape Town garden. |
Gazania
sp. growing in Cape Town garden. |
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The 17 species are all native to southern Africa but
two of them have
distributions extending further north into Africa.
Species native to southern Africa
List from
Plants of
southern Africa - an online checklist (SANBI),
Flora of Zimbabwe
and Flora of
Mozambique.
Gazania caespitosa |
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Gazania ciliaris |
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Gazania heterochaeta |
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Gazania jurineifolia |
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Gazania krebsiana (Common
Gazania)
Bruingousblom [Afrikaans]; mabone, shoeshoe, tsikitlane
[South Sotho]; isapokwe, umkwinti [Xhosa]; ubendle [Xhosa, Zulu];
impephotshani, isiphephane [Zulu] See
Flora of Zimbabwe; KwaZulu-Natal
wild flowers by Elsa Pooley p. 332; Wild
Flowers of the Highveld by Braam van Wyk and Sasa Malan p. 40, 100; Namaqualand
wildflowers (revised ed.) by Annelise le Roux & Ted Schelpe p. 198;
West
Coast wild flowers by John Manning & Peter Goldblatt p. 222; Eastern
Cape wild flowers by John Manning, Auriol Batten & Hertha Bokelmann
p. 284; Karoo wildflowers by
David Shearing & Katryn van Heerden p. 150; Transvaal
Lowveld and escarpment wild flowers by Jo Onderstall p. 202; Cederberg
wild flowers by Gretel van Rooyen & Hester Steyn p. 232; Creative
gardening with indigenous plants. A South African Guide by Pitta Joffe
p. 256. |
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Gazania leiopoda |
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Gazania lichtensteinii
Botterblom, Kougoed [Afrikaans]
Namaqualand
wildflowers (revised ed.) by Annelise le Roux & Ted Schelpe p. 198;
Nieuwoudtville
wildflowers by John Manning & Peter Goldblatt p. 194; Karoo
wildflowers by David Shearing & Katryn van Heerden p. 150. |
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Gazania linearis |
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Gazania maritima |
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Gazania othonnites |
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Gazania pectinata
Kaapse Rooi Gousblom, Ogiesgousblom [Afrikaans] See West
Coast wild flowers by John Manning & Peter Goldblatt p. 222; Eastern
Cape wild flowers by John Manning, Auriol Batten & Hertha Bokelmann
p. 272; Hottentots
Holland to Hermanus wild flowers by Lee Burman & Anne Bean p. 184;
Southern
Overberg wild flowers by Penny Mustart et al. p. 240. |
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Gazania rigens (Trailing
Gazania)
Rankbotterblom [Afrikaans]; Ubendle, Ububendle [Zulu]
See KwaZulu-Natal
wild flowers by Elsa Pooley p. 334; Creative
gardening with indigenous plants. A South African Guide by Pitta Joffe
p. 273. |
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Gazania rigida
Rooigousblom [Afrikaans] See Nieuwoudtville
wildflowers by John Manning & Peter Goldblatt p. 194. |
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Gazania schenckii |
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Gazania serrata
Botterblom [Afrikaans] See Cederberg
wild flowers by Gretel van Rooyen & Hester Steyn p. 234. |
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Gazania tenuifolia
See Namaqualand
wildflowers (revised ed.) by Annelise le Roux & Ted Schelpe p. 198. |
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Gazania thermalis |
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