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Family:
Ranunculaceae (anemone family) Life
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Sixty-two genera and 2525 species (worldwide), with seven
genera and 35 species native to southern Africa, and two species naturalised. An additional 12 genera and
47 species are cultivated in the region.
Species native to southern Africa
List from Dreyer and Jordaan (2000).
Anemone
About 120 species (worldwide), with three species native to southern Africa. An additional two species are cultivated in the region. |
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Clematis
About 230 species (temperate regions and tropical Africa), with 14 species native to southern Africa. An additional 12 species are cultivated in
the region. |
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Knowltonia
About eight species, all native to southern Africa, with one species,
Knowltonia transvaalensis, extending further north into central Africa. |
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Myosurus
Fifteen species (mainly temperate regions), with one species,
Myosurus
minimus (Mousetail), endemic to the Western Cape. |
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Ranunculus
About 250 species (cosmopolitan), with seven species native to southern Africa,
and two naturalised. An additional five species are cultivated in the region. |
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Thalictrum
About 85 species (America, Africa), with two species native to southern
Africa. An additional three species are cultivated in southern Africa. |
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Other genera, cultivated in southern Africa
List from Glen (2002). Note that Paeonia has been
transferred to the Paeoniaceae (see
classification of flowering plants).
Aconitum
Three species cultivated. |
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Adonis aestivalis
Indigenous from Europe to southwest Asia. |
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Aquilegia (columbine genus)
Five species cultivated. |
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Caltha
One species cultivated - Caltha palustris (Marsh marigold, Kingcups),
native to the northern Temperate region. |
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Consolida
Three species cultivated. |
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Delphinium
Four species cultivated. |
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Helleborus
Three species cultivated. |
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Nigella
Two species cultivated - Nigella damscena (Love-in-a-Mist), native to
southern Europe, and Nigella hispanica, native to Spain and France. |
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Pulsatilla
Two species cultivated - Pulsatilla montana, native to France and
Spain, and Pulsatilla vulgaris (Pasque flower), native to Europe. |
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Trollius chinensis
Native to China. |
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Publications
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Dreyer, L.L. and Jordaan, M. 2000. Ranunculaceae. In: Seed Plants of
Southern Africa (ed. O.A. Leistner). Strelitzia 10: 463-464.
National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
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Glen, H.F. 2002. Cultivated Plants of
Southern Africa. Jacana, Johannesburg.
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