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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Evolvulus

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: Solanales > Family: Convolvulaceae

About 100 species, native mainly to tropical America but with two species native to southern Africa and additional species cultivated in the region.

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of southern Africa - an online checklist (SANBI), Flora of Zimbabwe and Flora of Mozambique.

Evolvulus alsinoides

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Evolvulus nummularius

See Flora of Mozambique.

 

Other species, cultivated in southern Africa

List from Glen (2002).

Evolvulus glomeratus

Native to Paraguay.