Checklist: Combretaceae

COMBRETACEAE

Introduction:

This is a checklist of species, generated from the database, which are known to have been cultivated in Zimbabwe.

To go to the main family page, click on the family name above.

Combretum indicum

Literature:   
Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002) Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa  
Exell, A.W. (1978) Combretaceae Flora Zambesiaca 4   
 
Names
 
5538.000 COMBRETUM Loefl.
QUISQUALIS L.  
Combretum afrum (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Kuntze
Combretum apiculatum Sond.
subsp. apiculatum
Combretum bracteosum (Hochst.) Brandis
Poivrea bracteosa Hochst.
Combretum celastroides Welw. ex M.A. Lawson
subsp. celastroides
Combretum patelliforme Engl. & Diels
Combretum elaeagnoides Klotzsch
Combretum erythrophyllum (Burch.) Sond.
Combretum glomuleriflorum Sond.
Combretum lyndenburgianum Engl. & Diels
Combretum salicifolium sensu Munro
Combretum fruticosum (Loefl.) Stuntz
Combretum farinosum Kunth
Combretum loeflingii Eichler
Gaura fruticosa Loefl.
Combretum hereroense Schinz
subsp. hereroense
Combretum rhodesicum Baker f.
Combretum transvaalense Schinz
Combretum indicum (L.) DeFilipps
Quisqualis indica L.
Combretum kraussii Hochst.
Combretum lucidum E. Mey. ex Drège
Combretum nelsonii Dummer
Combretum woodii Dummer
Combretum microphyllum Klotzsch
Combretum paniculatum Vent. subsp. microphyllum (Klotzsch) Wickens
Combretum paniculatum Vent.
 
5539.000 PTELEOPSIS Engl.
Pteleopsis myrtifolia (M.A. Lawson) Engl. & Diels
Combretum myrtifolium M.A. Lawson
 
5541.000 QUISQUALIS L.
 
5544.000 TERMINALIA L.
Terminalia catappa L.
Terminalia mantaly H. Perrier
Terminalia prunioides M.A. Lawson
Terminalia sericea Burch. ex DC.
Terminalia velutina sensu Eyles
Terminalia tricristata Capuron
 
5547.000 ANOGEISSUS (DC.) Wall.
Anogeissus leiocarpa (DC.) Guill. & Perr.
Anogeissus leiocarpus (DC.) Guill. & Per.
Conocarpus leiocarpus DC.

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-25

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2025). Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants checklist: Combretaceae.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/utilities/utility-display-cult-checklist.php?family_id=59, retrieved 5 December 2025

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