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Genus: Pluchea Life
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Euasterid II > Family: Asteraceae > Tribe: Plucheeae
About 80 species, native to Asia, America, Africa and Australia, with
four
species found 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.
Pluchea bojeri |
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Pluchea dioscoridis
Recorded from Zimbabwe. See
Flora of Zimbabwe. |
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Pluchea lycioides |
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Pluchea ovalis |
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Publications
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Keeley, S.C. & Jansen, R.K. 1991. Evidence
from chloroplast DNA for the recognition of a new tribe, the Tarchonantheae,
and the tribal placement of Pluchea (Asteraceae). Systematic
Botany 16: 173-181.
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