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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Stereospermum

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

The fifteen species are distributed in the Old World tropics, with one species native to southern Africa and another two species cultivated.

Species native to southern Africa

List from Flora of Zimbabwe.

Stereospermum kunthianum (Pink jacaranda)

Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Species cultivated in southern Africa

List from Glen (2002).

Stereospermum chelonioides

Native from India to Indonesia.

 

Stereospermum colais (Palni)

Native from India to China.