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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Stoebe

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 > Family: Asteraceae > Tribe: Gnaphalieae

The 25 species are native to Africa and Madagascar with 22 of them native to southern Africa.  

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of southern Africa - an online checklist (SANBI), Flora of Zimbabwe and Flora of Mozambique.

Stoebe aethiopica

Withofie-slangbos, Knoppiesbos [Afrikaans]

See Cederberg wild flowers by Gretel van Rooyen & Hester Steyn p. 212.

Stoebe alopecuroides

 

Stoebe capitata 

Knoppies Slangbos [Afrikaans]

See West Coast wild flowers by John Manning & Peter Goldblatt p. 196; Cederberg wild flowers by Gretel van Rooyen & Hester Steyn p. 212.

Stoebe cyathuloides

 

Stoebe filaginea

 

Stoebe fusca

 

Stoebe gomphrenoides

 

Stoebe intricata

 

Stoebe leucocephala

 

Stoebe microphylla

 

Stoebe montana

 

Stoebe muirii

 

Stoebe nervigera

 

Stoebe phyllostachya

 

Stoebe plumosum

Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Stoebe prostrata

 

Stoebe rosea

 

Stoebe rugulosa

 

Stoebe saxatilis

 

Stoebe scabra

 

Stoebe schultzii

 

Stoebe spiralis

 

Publications

  • Levyns, M.R. 1937. A revision of Stoebe L. Journal of South African Botany 3: 1-35.