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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Pithecoctenium

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: Lamiales > Family: Bignoniaceae

Two species cultivated.  

Species cultivated in southern Africa

List from Glen (2002).

Pithecoctenium crucigerum (Monkey comb, Pente de Macacok)

[= Pithecoctenium echinatum]

Native from Mexico to Argentina.

 

Pithecoctenium cynanchoides

Native to Brazil.