List of Pandanales of South Africa

Pandanales is an order of flowering plants placed in the monocot clade in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group and Angiosperm Phylogeny Web systems. Within the monocots Pandanales are grouped in the lilioid monocots where they are in a sister group relationship with the Dioscoreales. Historically the order has consisted of a number of different families in different systems but modern classification of the order is based primarily on molecular phylogenetics despite diverse morphology which previously placed many of the families in other groupings based on apparent similarity. Members of the order have a subtropical distribution and includes trees, shrubs, vines, and herbaceous plants. The order consists of 5 families, 36 genera and about 1,610 species.

The anthophytes are a grouping of plant taxa bearing flower-like reproductive structures. They were formerly thought to be a clade comprising plants bearing flower-like structures. The group contained the angiosperms - the extant flowering plants, such as roses and grasses - as well as the Gnetales and the extinct Bennettitales.^[1]

23,420 species of vascular plant have been recorded in South Africa, making it the sixth most species-rich country in the world and the most species-rich country on the African continent. Of these, 153 species are considered to be threatened.^[2] Nine biomes have been described in South Africa: Fynbos, Succulent Karoo, desert, Nama Karoo, grassland, savanna, Albany thickets, the Indian Ocean coastal belt, and forests.^[3]

The 2018 South African National Biodiversity Institute's National Biodiversity Assessment plant checklist lists 35,130 taxa in the phyla Anthocerotophyta (hornworts (6)), Anthophyta (flowering plants (33534)), Bryophyta (mosses (685)), Cycadophyta (cycads (42)), Lycopodiophyta (Lycophytes(45)), Marchantiophyta (liverworts (376)), Pinophyta (conifers (33)), and Pteridophyta (cryptogams (408)).^[4]

One family is represented in the literature. Listed taxa include species, subspecies, varieties, and forms as recorded, some of which have subsequently been allocated to other taxa as synonyms, in which cases the accepted taxon is appended to the listing. Multiple entries under alternative names reflect taxonomic revision over time.

Velloziaceae[]

• Family: Velloziaceae,^[4]

Barbacenia[]

Genus Barbacenia:^[4]

• Barbacenia elegans (Balf.) Pax, accepted as Xerophyta elegans (Balf.) Baker
• (Baker) R.E.Fr. accepted as Baker
• (Baker) Pax ex Burtt Davy & R.Pott, accepted as (Baker) T.Durand & Schinz
• (Baker) Dinter, accepted as (Baker) T.Durand & Schinz
• (Baker) Pax ex Burtt Davy & R.Pott, accepted as Xerophyta retinervis Baker var. retinervis
• (Baker) Pax ex Burtt Davy & R.Pott, accepted as (Baker) N.L.Menezes
• (Baker) Burtt Davy & R.Pott, accepted as (Baker) N.L.Menezes
• (Baker) Pax ex Burtt Davy & R.Pott, accepted as (Baker) L.B.Sm. & Ayensu [1], indigenous
• (Baker) Pax ex Burtt Davy & R.Pott, accepted as Baker
• Harms, accepted as (Harms) Solch var. wentzeliana
  • Barbacenia wentzeliana Harms var. rhodesiana R.E.Fr. accepted as (Harms) Solch var. wentzeliana

Talbotia[]

Genus Talbotia:^[4]

• Talbotia elegans Balf. accepted as Xerophyta elegans (Balf.) Baker, endemic

Vellozia[]

Genus Vellozia:^[4]

• (Baker) Baker, accepted as Xerophyta retinervis Baker var. retinervis
• Vellozia elegans (Balf.) Oliv. ex Hook.f. accepted as Xerophyta elegans (Balf.) Baker
• Vellozia elegans (Balf.) Oliv. ex Hook.f. var. minor Baker, accepted as Xerophyta elegans (Balf.) Baker, indigenous
• (Baker) Baker, accepted as Baker, indigenous
• Baker, accepted as (Baker) T.Durand & Schinz
• Baker, accepted as (Baker) T.Durand & Schinz
• (Baker) Baker, accepted as Xerophyta retinervis Baker var. retinervis
• Baker, accepted as (Baker) N.L.Menezes
• Baker, accepted as (Baker) N.L.Menezes
• Greves, accepted as (Greves) N.L.Menezes var. suaveolens
• Balf. accepted as Xerophyta elegans (Balf.) Baker
• Baker, accepted as (Baker) L.B.Sm. & Ayensu [1], indigenous
• (Baker) Baker, accepted as Baker
• (Harms) Greves, accepted as (Harms) Solch var. wentzeliana

Xerophyta[]

Genus Xerophyta:^[4]

• Behnke, endemic
• T.Durand & Schinz, accepted as (Baker) L.B.Sm. & Ayensu [1]
• Baker, accepted as Xerophyta retinervis Baker var. retinervis, indigenous
• Xerophyta elegans (Balf.) Baker, endemic
• Baker, indigenous
  • Xerophyta equisetoides Baker var. pauciramosa L.B.Sm. & Ayensu, accepted as (L.B.Sm. & Ayensu) Behnke, indigenous
  • Xerophyta equisetoides Baker var. pubescens L.B.Sm. & Ayensu, accepted as (Harms) Solch var. wentzeliana
  • Xerophyta equisetoides Baker var. setosa L.B.Sm. & Ayensu, accepted as Baker
• (Baker) T.Durand & Schinz, indigenous
• Behnke, endemic
• Hilliard, endemic
• Baker, accepted as Baker
• T.Durand & Schinz, accepted as Xerophyta elegans (Balf.) Baker
• Baker, accepted as Xerophyta elegans (Balf.) Baker
• Schinz, accepted as (Baker) L.B.Sm. & Ayensu [1]
• (L.B.Sm. & Ayensu) Behnke, indigenous
• Behnke, endemic
• Behnke, endemic
• Xerophyta retinervis Baker, indigenous
  • Xerophyta retinervis Baker var. equisetoides (Baker) Coetzee, accepted as Baker
  • Xerophyta retinervis Baker var. multiramosa Behnke, endemic
  • Xerophyta retinervis Baker var. retinervis, indigenous
  • Xerophyta retinervis Baker var. wentzeliana (Harms) Coetzee, accepted as (Harms) Solch var. wentzeliana
• (Baker) N.L.Menezes, endemic
• (Baker) N.L.Menezes, indigenous
• (Greves) N.L.Menezes, indigenous
  • Xerophyta suaveolens (Greves) N.L.Menezes var. suaveolens, indigenous
• J.E.Burrows, S.M.Burrows & Behnke, endemic
• (Baker) L.B.Sm. & Ayensu, indigenous
• Baker, indigenous

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