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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Heliophila

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 > Rosids > Eurosid II > Order: Brassicales > Family: Brassicaceae

Eighty-one species, all endemic to southern Africa, mainly winter-rainfall regions.

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI).

Heliophila acuminata

 

Heliophila adpressa

 

Heliophila affinis

 

Heliophila africana

 

Heliophila alpina

 

Heliophila amplexicaulis

 

Heliophila arenaria

 

Heliophila arenosa

 

Heliophila brachycarpa

 

Heliophila brassicifolia

 

Heliophila bulbostyla

 

Heliophila callosa

 

Heliophila carnosa

 

Heliophila cedarbergensis

 

Heliophila cinerea

 

Heliophila collina

 

Heliophila concatenata

 

Heliophila cornellsbergia

 

Heliophila cornuta

 

Heliophila coronopifolia

 

Heliophila crithmifolia

 

Heliophila cuneata

 

Heliophila descurva

 

Heliophila deserticola

 

Heliophila diffusa

 

Heliophila digitata

 

Heliophila dregeana

 

Heliophila elata

 

Heliophila elongata

 

Heliophila ephemera

 

Heliophila esterhuyseniae

 

Heliophila eximia

 

Heliophila filicaulis

 

Heliophila formosa

 

Heliophila gariepina

 

Heliophila glauca

 

Heliophila hurkana

[= Cycloptychis marlothii]

 

Heliophila juncea

[= Brachycarpaea juncea]

 

Heliophila katbergensis

 

Heliophila laciniata

 

Heliophila lactea

 

Heliophila leptophylla

 

Heliophila linearis

 

Heliophila linoides

 

Heliophila macowaniana

 

Heliophila macra

 

Heliophila macrosperma

 

Heliophila maraisiana

[= Cycloptychis virgata]

 

Heliophila meyeri

 

Heliophila minima

 

Heliophila monosperma

[= Schlechteria capensis]

 

Heliophila namaquana

 

Heliophila namaquensis

[= Thlaspeocarpa namaquensis]

 

Heliophila nubigena

 

Heliophila obibensis

 

Heliophila patens

 

Heliophila pectinata

 

Heliophila pendula

 

Heliophila pinnata

 

Heliophila polygaloides

[= Silicularia polygaloides]

 

Heliophila promontorii

 

Heliophila pubescens

 

Heliophila pusilla

 

Heliophila ramosissima

 

Heliophila refracta

 

Heliophila remotiflora

 

Heliophila rigidiuscula

 

Heliophila rimicola

 

Heliophila scandens

 

Heliophila schulzii

 

Heliophila scoparia

 

Heliophila seselifolia

 

Heliophila suavissima

 

Heliophila suborbicularis

[= Thlaspeocarpa capensis]

 

Heliophila subulata

 

Heliophila tabularis

 

Heliophila thunbergii

 

Heliophila tricuspidata

 

Heliophila trifurca

 

Heliophila tulbaghensis

 

Heliophila variabilis