Genus: Acalypha

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About 430 species, worldwide distribution in warm regions, with 28 species native to southern Africa and an additional five species that are cultivated in the region.

• Species native to southern Africa
• Ecological relationships of Acalypha species in southern Africa

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI), Flora of Zimbabwe and Flora of Mozambique.

Acalypha acrogyna Native from Ethiopia southwards to Zimbabwe and southern Mozambique.
Acalypha allenii
Acalypha amentacea [= Acalypha wilkesiana] Recorded from Mozambique.
Acalypha ambigua
Acalypha angustata
Acalypha capensis
Acalypha caperonioides
Acalypha chirindica Native to Tanzania, southern DRC, Zambia, Zimbabwe and northern Mozambique. See African flowering plants database,
Acalypha ciliata See Flora of Zimbabwe.
Acalypha crenata
Acalypha depressinerva
Acalypha ecklonii
Acalypha fimbriata
Acalypha fruticosa
Acalypha glabrata
Acalypha glandulifolia
Acalypha indica
Acalypha lanceolata Recorded from Mozambique.
Acalypha ornata
Acalypha peduncularis
Acalypha polymorpha Native from Cabinda and Kenya southwards to southern Angola, Zimbabwe and northern Mozambique. See African Flowering Plants Database
Acalypha pubiflora
Acalypha punctata
Acalypha racemosa Native from West Africa and Ethiopia southwards to Zimbabwe and southern Mozambique. See African Flowering Plants Database, Flora of Zimbabwe
Acalypha segetalis
Acalypha sonderiana
Acalypha villicaulis
Acalypha wilmsii
Acalypha welwitschiana

Other species, cultivated in southern Africa

List from Glen (2002).

Acalypha godseffiana Native to Polynesia.
Acalypha hispaniolae Native to Haiti and Dominican Republic.
Acalypha hispida Native to Malaysia and New Guinea.
Acalypha manniana Native to tropical Africa
Acalypha wilkesiana (Beefsteak Plant, Copperleaf, Jacob's Coat) Native to the Pacific Islands.

Publications

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