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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Podranea

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, native to Africa: Podranea ricasoliana is found at Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape and Podranea brycei is found in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique.

 

Podranea sp. in Cape Town garden [photo H. Robertson, Iziko ©]

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI), Flora of Zimbabwe and Flora of Mozambique.

Podranea brycei (Zimbabwe creeper)

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Podranea ricasoliana (Port St. John's creeper)