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Genus: Orbea

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: Gentianales > Family: Apocynaceae > Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae

About 31 species, with 30 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.

Orbea albocastanea

[= Orbeopsis albocastanea]

 

Orbea carnosa

[= Pachycymbium carnosum, Pachycymbium keithii, Pachycymbium lancasteri]

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Orbea caudata

[= Orbeopsis caudata]

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Orbea ciliata

 

Orbea conjuncta

[= Orbeanthus conjunctus]

 

Orbea cooperi

 

Orbea elegans

 

Orbea gerstneri

[= Orbeopsis gerstneri]

 

Orbea hardyi

[= Orbeanthus hardyi]

 

Orbea huillensis

[= Orbeopsis gossweileri, Orbeopsis huillensis, Orbeopsis tsumebensis]

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Orbea knobelii

[= Orbeopsis knobelii]

 

Orbea longidens

 

Orbea longii

 

Orbea lugardii

[= Pachycymbium lugardii]

 

Orbea lutea

[= Orbeopsis lutea]

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Orbea macloughlinii

 

Orbea maculata

 

Orbea melanantha

[= Orbeopsis melanantha]

 

Orbea miscella

[= Pachycymbium miscellum]

 

Orbea namaquensis

 

Orbea paradoxa

 

Orbea pulchella

 

Orbea rogersii

[= Pachycymbium rogersii]

 

Orbea schweinfurthii

[= Pachycymbium schweinfurthii]

 

Orbea tapscottii

 

Orbea umbracula

Recorded from Zimbabwe. See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Orbea valida

[= Orbeopsis valida]

 

Orbea variegata

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Orbea verrucosa

 

Orbea woodii