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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Orthosiphon

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Order: Lamiales > Family: Lamiaceae

About 40-50 species, distributed in the tropics of the Old World, with five species native to southern Africa.

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI), Flora of Zimbabwe and Flora of Mozambique.

Orthosiphon allenii

Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Orthosiphon fruticosus

 

Orthosiphon rubicundus

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Orthosiphon suffrutescens

 

Orthosiphon vernalis