Aeschynomene

Genus: Aeschynomene

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 > Fabales > Family: Fabaceae > Subfamily: Papilionoideae

More than 150 species, native to tropical and subtropical regions, mainly in Africa and South America. There are about 28 species native to southern Africa, and a further three species that are 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.

Aeschynomene abyssinica Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Aeschynomene afraspera Recorded from Mozambique.
Aeschynomene aphylla Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. See Flora of Zimbabwe.
Aeschynomene bracteosa Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Aeschynomene chimanimaniensis Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. See Flora of Zimbabwe.
Aeschynomene cristata
Aeschynomene elaphroxylon Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Aeschynomene fluitans
Aeschynomene gazensis Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Aeschynomene grandistipulata Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Aeschynomene indica (Shola, Sola)
Aeschynomene inyangensis Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Aeschynomene leptophylla Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Aeschynomene mediocris Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Aeschynomene megalophylla Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Aeschynomene micrantha
Aeschynomene mimosifolia Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Aeschynomene minutiflora Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Aeschynomene nilotica
Aeschynomene nodulosa
Aeschynomene nyassana
Aeschynomene pfundii Recorded from Mozambique.
Aeschynomene rehmannii
Aeschynomene rhodesiaca
Aeschynomene schimperi Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Aeschynomene schliebenii Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Aeschynomene trigonocarpa Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Aeschynomene uniflora