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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Tripteris

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 > Order: Asterales > Family: Asteraceae > Tribe: Calenduleae

About 22 species, native to Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East. Sixteen species native to southern Africa.

Species native to southern Africa

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

Tripteris aghillana

[= Osteospermum scariosum]

Bietou [Afrikaans]

See Wild Flowers of the Highveld by Braam van Wyk and Sasa Malan p. 102.

Tripteris amplexicaulis

 

Tripteris angolensis

 

Tripteris auriculata

 

Tripteris calcicola

 

Tripteris crassifolia

 

Tripteris dentata

 

Tripteris microcarpa

 

Tripteris nervosa

 

Tripteris oppositifolia 

[= Osteospermum oppositifolium]

Stinkskaapbos, Bietou [Afrikaans]

See Nieuwoudtville wildflowers by John Manning & Peter Goldblatt p. 186; Cederberg wild flowers by Gretel van Rooyen & Hester Steyn p. 228.

 

Tripteris pinnatilobata

 

Tripteris polycephala

 

Tripteris rosulata

 

Tripteris sinuata 

Skaapbos, Kleinskaapbossie [Afrikaans]

See Nieuwoudtville wildflowers by John Manning & Peter Goldblatt p. 186; Karoo wildflowers by David Shearing & Katryn van Heerden p. 166.

Tripteris spathulata

 

Tripteris spinigera