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Flora of Tanzania: Utilities: List of genus vernacular names

The use of English names for genera is a new feature of the site and at present content is somewhat limited.

Click on a letter below to take you to the first genus whose name begins with that letter.

A
Aloe

B
Basket grasses
Bog clubmosses
Bristle grasses
Buckwheats
Buttonweeds

C
Carrion-flowers
Cosmos
Crowfoots

D
Docks
Dodder-laurels
Dodders

E
Everlasting flowers

F
False thorns
Fescues
Figs
Finger-grasses

f
firmosses or fir clubmosses

F
Fleabanes
Fleabanes
Floating hearts
Flossflowers

G
Gaertn.
Gladioluses
Ground pines or creeping cedar
Guavas

H
Hollies
Horsetails

K
Knotgrasses
Knotweeds

L
Leadworts
Lettuces
Lucky-bean trees

M
Maidenhair fern
Mints
Mistletoes
Mulberries

N
Naiads
Nettles
Nightshades

O
Oil palms
Orchid trees

P
Passion flowers
Pennyworts
Pineapples (Cultivated genus)
Pondweeds

Q
Quillworts

R
Radishes
Red-hot pokers
Rhodes grasses

S
Shoelace fern
Speedwells
Starburs
Sundews

T
Tamarisks
Thatching-grasses
Thorn trees

W
Water clover or clover fern.
Water-milfoils
Water-plantains
Willowherbs
Willows

Y
Yams
Yellow-woods

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