Family: Elatinaceae 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 I > Order: Malpighiales
Two genera and thirty-five species (worldwide, mainly
tropical). Both genera and 12 species are native to southern Africa.
Genera native to southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI).
Bergia
Twenty five species of which 10 are native to southern Africa. |
|
Elatine
Ten species of which two are native to southern Africa. |
|
|