Apocynaceae

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Mondia whitei (Hook.f.) Skeels

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Common names: White's ginger, tonic root (Eng.); mundondo, mudondo (Angola); mundondo, bondo, molo busio (Cissongo - Central African Republic); nlondo, kimbiolongwa, kumba (Ngwaka - Democratic Republic of the Congo); ubasangbwandiya, gatimba (Lugware - Democratic Republic of the Congo); mujimbaye (Tshiluba - Democratic Republic of the Congo); lacadje (Fula - Guinea Bissau); mkombela (Kenya); citumbulo (Malawi); umondi, mundi, mindi (Zulu); sedando omutona (Uganda) and mungurawu (Shona Zimbabwe).

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Miraglossum davyi (N.E. Br.) Kupicha

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Common names: No known common names.

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Huernia pendula E.A.Bruce

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Common names: bootlace huernia (Eng.); skoenveter-aasblom (Afr.); imitya (Xhosa)

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Hoodia gordonii (Masson) Sweet ex Decne.

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Common names: bitter ghaap (Eng.); bitterghaap, muishondghaap, wolweghaap, bobbejaanghaap, bergghaap, bokhorings (Afr.); khobab (Khoi)

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Gomphocarpus physocarpus E.Mey.

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Common names: balloon milkweed, balloon wild cotton, hairy balls, bindweed (Eng.); balmelkbossie, balbossie, wilde kapok (Afr.); umbababa, umbemiso, umangwazane, umqumnqwewe, uphuphuma, usingalwesalukazi, umsingalwesalukazi (Zulu) = Asclepias physocarpa (E.Mey.) Schltr.

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Gomphocarpus fruticosus (L.) Aiton f.

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Common names: milkweed, wild cotton (Eng.); gansie, melkbos (Afr.); Lebegane (Sotho); Umsinga-lwesalukazi (Zulu)

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Gomphocarpus cancellatus (Burm.f.) Bruyns

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Common names: wild cotton (Eng.); bergmelkbos, bergtontelbos, dermhout, gansiesbos, katoenbos, melkbos, regopmelkbos (Afr.)

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Diplorhynchus condylocarpon (Müll.Arg.) Pichon

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Common names: Rhodesian rubber tree, horn-pod tree, wild rubber (Eng.); horingpeultjieboom, horingpeulbos, melkbos (Afr.); mutowa (Shona); tsowa (Tsonga); ntsowa, mulya (Tswana); muthowa (Venda)

SA Tree No: 643

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Ceropegia ampliata E.Mey.

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Common names: Bushman's Pipe (Eng.); Boesmanspyp (Afr.)

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Carissa edulis Vahl

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Common names: simple-spined num-num, climbing num-num, small num-num, (Eng.); enkeldoringnoemnoem, ranknoemnoem, kleinnoemnoem (Afr.); mothokolo (North Sotho); murungulu (Venda), umlugulu (Ndebele), murambara, muraramombe, muruguru, mutsamviringwa, nzambara, esamviringa, umsamviringwa (Shona), morogola (Lovedu)

SA Tree No: 640.4

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