Genus:
Craibia
Life
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Archaeoplastida >
Chloroplastida
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Eurosid I > Fabales
> Family: Fabaceae > Subfamily:
Papilionoideae
Ten species, native to tropical Africa, with two
species native to southern Africa and one 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.
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Craibia brevicaudata Native to
woodlands and forests of Central and East Africa, including DRC, Angola,
Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. |
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Craibia
zimmermannii (Peawood) Native to the sand forests
on the east coast of Africa from southern Somalia to the Eastern Cape, South
Africa. |
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Other species, cultivated in southern Africa
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Craibia affinis Native to
Tanzania, DRC and Zambia. Cultivated in the Lowveld Botanical Garden,
Mpumalanga. |
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Text by Hamish Robertson |
