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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Alectra

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: Lamiales > Family: Orobanchaceae

About 40 species, native to Asia and Africa, with about 21 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.

Alectra asperrima

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Alectra aurantiaca

 

Alectra bainesii

 

Alectra basutica

 

Alectra capensis

 

Alectra dunensis

 

Alectra hundtii

 

Alectra lancifolia

 

Alectra lurida

 

Alectra natalensis

 

Alectra orobanchoides

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Alectra parasitica

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Alectra picta

 

Alectra rigida

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Alectra pseudobarleriae

 

Alectra pumila

 

Alectra schoenfelderi

 

Alectra sessiliflora

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Alectra thyrsoidea

 

Alectra vogelii

 

Alectra welwitschii