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Wild-medlars

Vangueria

Wild-medlars
Photo: Marco Schmidt [1], CC BY-SA 2.5
Family
Rubiaceae (Coffee family)

About

Vangueria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is named for Voa vanguer, as V. madagascariensis is known in Malagasy.

Where it grows

The genus contains over 50 species distributed in Africa south of the Sahara with one species occurring in Madagascar (V. madagascariensis). The centre of diversity is in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania) and they are rare in West Africa.

Other Vangueria plants

Wild Medlars · Wild Medlars · Vangueria agrestis · Vangueria albosetulosa · Vangueria apiculata · Vangueria bicolor · Forest Crowned Medlar · Vangueria burnettii · Vangueria burttii · Vangueria chariensis · Vangueria cinerascens · Vangueria cinnamomea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vangueria by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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