Genus: Chionanthus
Life
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Archaeoplastida >
Chloroplastida
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Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants)
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plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Asterids > Euasterid I > Order: Lamiales > Family: Oleaceae
About 120 species worldwide,
occurring in the tropics mainly. There are three 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.
Publications
- Hong-Wa C, Besnard G. 2013. Intricate patterns of phylogenetic
relationships in the olive family as inferred from multi-locus plastid and
nuclear DNA sequence analyses: A close-up on Chionanthus and Noronhia
(Oleaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution in press. doi
10.1016/j.ympev.2013.02.003
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