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COURBONIA Brongn.
NIEBUHRIA DC.
PHYSANTHEMUM Klotzsch
STREBLOCARPUS Arn.
WIEGMANNIA Hochst. & Steud.
Shrublets, shrubs, trees or climbers. Spines 0 but lateral branches may be sharp at the tip. Leaves alternate or crowded on short side shoots, simple or 3(-5)-foliolate. Flowers bisexual. Receptacle cylindric or funnel-shaped, often produced into a disk. Sepals (3-)4. Petals 0 or (3-)4(-8). Androgynophore shorter than the sepals. Gynophore elongated. Fruit spherical, ovoid, ellipsoid, oblong-ellipsoid or cylindric, sometimes beaded. Worldwide: 50 species in tropical and South Africa, extending to India Botswana: 7 taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| angolensis DC. | N,SW,SE | Description, Image |
| cafra (DC.) Pax | Description | |
| juncea Pax[Agg] | N,SE | |
| juncea Pax subsp. crustata (Wild) Wild | N,SE | Description, Image |
| juncea Pax subsp. juncea | N | Description, Image |
| parvifolia Pax | N | Description, Image |
| schinzii Pax |
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