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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Bowkeria

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: Stilbaceae

About 40 species, native to Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Isalnds, with about five species in southern Africa. This genus was previously placed in the Buddlejaceae (no longer a valid family) and before that in the Loganiaceae.

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI).

Bowkeria citrina

 

Bowkeria cymosa

 

Bowkeria verticillata