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Adansonia digitata
Common names: baobab, Cream of Tartar tree, monkey-bread tree, lemonade tree (Eng.); kremetartboom(Afr.); isimuku, umShimulu, isiMuhu (Zulu); ximuwu (Tsonga); mowan
Family: Malvaceae
... but this is now generally regarded as a subfamily of Malvaceae. Bombacaceae is tropical with about 21 genera and ...
10 / 02 / 2003 | Andrew Hankey | Walter Sisulu NBG
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Anisodontea dissecta
Common names: Ruens mallow (Eng.)
Family: Malvaceae
05 / 10 / 2020 | Lindokuhle Sibisi | Compton Herbarium
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Anisodontea julii
Common names: Drakensberg mallow, mountain mallow, African mallow (Eng.); bergroos (Afr.); letjeane-la-noka, llefeta (SS)
Family: Malvaceae
21 / 03 / 2005 | L Badenhorst | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Anisodontea scabrosa
Common names: rough-leaf African mallow, sand rose, pink mallow, hairy mallow (Eng.); sandroos, pienk-kiesieblaar, harigemalva (Afr.)
Family: Malvaceae
... the touch, as felt in the harshly hairy leaves. The family Malvaceae has many important commercial agricultural crops ...
02 / 05 / 2011 | N Stoll | Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
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Azanza garckeana
Common names: azanza, quarters, Rhodesian tree-hibiscus, slime-apple, snot-apple, tree-hibiscus (Eng.); slymappel, snotappel (Afr.); caglacagla, ixaguxagu, ixakuxak
Family: Malvaceae
... calyx relates this genus to only 2 other genera in Malvaceae, namely Gossypium and Thespesia . However, the ... produced from the heartwood. As with many other species of Malvaceae, the fibers of the inner bark can be used to make a ...
18 / 12 / 2017 | Ashton Welcome | National Herbarium Pretoria
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Cienfuegosia hildebrandtii
Common names: small cotton bush, wedge-leaf false-hibiscus, small fly-mallow (Eng.)
Family: Malvaceae
... in East Africa and Madagascar. This species belongs to the Malvaceae, the family famous for its star-shaped hairs. The ...
24 / 05 / 2022 | Swinky Nkosi | National Herbarium Pretoria
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Cola greenwayi
Common names: hairy cola (Eng.); harige kola (Afr.); iNthandoti (Zulu)
Family: Malvaceae
20 / 01 / 2014 | Nonkululo Phephu | National Herbarium Pretoria
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Corchorus olitorius
Common names: Egyptian spinach, Indian jute, wild jute, bush okra, Jew’s mallow, West African sorrel, jute mallow, tossa jute (Eng.); wilde jute, Indiese jute (Af
Family: Malvaceae
02 / 08 / 2021 | Meshack Nethavhani | Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
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Dombeya autumnalis
Common names: autumn dombeya, autumn wild pear (English); rotsdrolpeer (Afrikaans)
Family: Malvaceae
28 / 05 / 2001 | Alice Aubrey | Walter Sisulu NBG
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Dombeya burgessiae
Common names: pink wild pear, pink dombeya, persdrolpeer (Afrikaans), ibunda (Zulu)
Family: Malvaceae
07 / 05 / 2001 | Andrew Hankey | Walter Sisulu NBG
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Dombeya cymosa
Common names: small-flowered dombeya, smooth wild pear, Natal dombeya, Natal wild pear, hairless dombeya (Eng.); gladdeblompeer, Nataldrolpeer, gladdedrolpeer (Afr.
Family: Malvaceae
... and is currently included in the expanded mallow family, Malvaceae, according to the APG II. The genus Dombeya was ...
27 / 04 / 2015 | Nonkululo Phephu | National Herbarium Pretoria
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Dombeya kirkii
Common names: river wild pear, river dombeya (Eng.); rivierdrolpeer (Afr.)
Family: Malvaceae
02 / 03 / 2020 | Sisanda Alakhe Velembo-Mhlauli | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Dombeya pulchra
Common names: silver white pear (Eng.); blombos (Afr.)
Family: Malvaceae
15 / 08 / 2005 | K Behr | Pretoria NBG
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Dombeya rotundifolia
Common names: wild pear (English); drolpeer (Afrikaans); iNhliziyonkhulu (Zulu); mohlabaphala (N. Sotho); motubane (Tswana); nsihaphukuma (Tsonga)
Family: Malvaceae
17 / 09 / 2001 | Alice Aubrey | Walter Sisulu NBG
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Dombeya tiliacea
Common names: forest wild pear, forest dombeya, little-dog-rose (Eng.); bosblompeer, bosdrolpeer (Afr.), ibunda (isiZulu), utyibo (isiXhosa)
Family: Malvaceae
... resemblance to linden trees and lime trees, Tilia spp. (Malvaceae) The common name drolpeer or wildpear comes from ...
06 / 08 / 2018 | Alice Notten | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum
Common names: wild cotton (Eng.); wildekatoen (Afr.); kotini (Xho.); litjinda (Swa.); ugampokwe, umgawuma (Zul.)
Family: Malvaceae
13 / 10 / 2014 | Mandisa Kondlo | Walter Sisulu NBG
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Grewia bicolor
Common names: white raisin (Eng.); witrosyntjie (Afr.); umsiphane (Swazi); nsihana, guguna, nsihani (Tsonga); mogwane (Tswana); murabva (Venda); umlalampunzi, imdli
Family: Malvaceae
10 / 09 / 2012 | M.S. Mothogoane | National Herbarium Pretoria
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Grewia caffra
Common names: climbing raisin, yellow starflower (Eng.); rankrosyntjie (Afr); ilalanyathi, umunyumunu, iphata, iklolo, isaka, isilandula (isiZulu); likholo, (siSwat
Family: Malvaceae
04 / 10 / 2021 | Robert Jooste | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Grewia flava
Common names: velvet raisin, wild currant, brandybush (Eng.); rosyntjiebos, brandewynbos, wilderosyntjie (Afr.); mothetlwa (Nso.); umlalampunzi, unhlwampunzi (Zul.)
Family: Malvaceae
... family (Tiliaceae), but was later placed in the family Malvaceae because of certain doubts surrounding the placement ...
09 / 12 / 2019 | Benjamin Festus | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Grewia flavescens
Common names: sandpaper raisin, rough-leaved raisinbush, square-stemmed raisin (Eng.); skurweblaarrosyntjie (Afr.); mogwane (N. Sotho); loklolo (Swazi); nsihana, nc
Family: Malvaceae
05 / 11 / 2012 | M.S. Mothogoane | National Herbarium Pretoria
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