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Roepera flexuosa

Roepera flexuosa
Common names: thin twinleaf (Eng.); spekbossie, spekbroodbossie, maerbossie, skilpadbos, vyfpondbos (Afr.)
Family: Zygophyllaceae

... angular stems. The genus Roepera belongs to the family Zygophyllaceae, a small, cosmopolitan family of about 26 ... of the world. In 1814 Robert Brown recognised the family Zygophyllaceae as a distinct taxon under the name ... the genus in southern Africa. Recent DNA studies in the Zygophyllaceae have caused substantial changes in the ...

04 / 09 / 2023 | Roger Oliver | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Zygophyllum

Zygophyllum foetidum
Common names: twinleaf, caper beans, dollar bush (Eng.); spekbossie, vaalkareedoring, witkriedoring (Afr.)
Family: Zygophyllaceae

... the ovary. The genus  Zygophyllum  belongs to the family Zygophyllaceae, a family of about 26 genera and 280 species, ... 1814, Robert Brown was the first to recognise the family Zygophyllaceae as a distinct taxon under the name ...

30 / 03 / 2009 | Elizabeth Retief | National Herbarium Pretoria
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Balanites maughamii subsp. maughamii

Butressed trunk and bark
Common names: torchwood (Eng.); groendoring (Afr.); umnunu (Sotho); nulu (Tswana)
Family: Zygophyllaceae

04 / 09 / 2006 | K Behr | Pretoria NBG
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