Genus: Bersama

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Rosids > Order: Geraniales > Family: Melianthaceae 

Eight species of which five are native to southern Africa.

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI).

Bersama abyssinica Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Bersama lucens (Glossy white ash)
Bersama swinnyi
Bersama swynnertonii Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. See Flora of Zimbabwe.
Bersama tysoniana

Publications

• Glen, H.F. 2002. Cultivated Plants of Southern Africa. Jacana, Johannesburg.