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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Flueggea

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 > Family: Phyllanthaceae

About 14 species, native to the tropics and east Asia, with two species in southern Africa.

Species native to southern Africa

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

Flueggea verrucosa 

Distribution: South Africa > Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal

 

Flueggea virosa (White-berry bush)

[= Securinega virosa]

Witbessiebos [Afrikaans]

Distribution: South Africa > KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, North West, Limpopo; Namibia; Botswana; Swaziland; Zimbabwe; Mozambique

See Flora of Zimbabwe