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Genus: Nuxia

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), Flora of Zimbabwe and Flora of Mozambique.

Nuxia congesta

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Nuxia floribunda (Forest Nuxia)

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

Nuxia floribunda

Nuxia glomerulata

 

Nuxia gracilis

 

Nuxia oppositifolia (Water elder)

See Flora of Zimbabwe.