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Genus: Pereskia Life
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Chloroplastida
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> Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering
plants) > Core Eudicots
> Order: Caryophyllales >
Familty: Cactaceae
Twenty species, native to Central and South
America; one species is naturalised in southern Africa
and a further four species are cultivated in the region.
Species naturalised in southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI),
Flora of
Zimbabwe and
Flora of Mozambique.
Other species, cultivated in southern Africa
List from Glen (2002).
Pereskia autumnalis
Native to Guatemala and San Salvador. |
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Pereskia bahiensis
Native to Brazil. |
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Pereskia grandifolia
Native to Brazil. |
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Pereskia sacharosa
Native from Brazil to Argentina. |
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