List of Southern African indigenous trees and woody lianes
This is a list of Southern African trees, shrubs, suffrutices, geoxyles and lianes, and is intended to cover Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
[1] The notion of 'indigenous' is of necessity a blurred concept, and is clearly a function of both time and political boundaries.
The global distribution of plants useful to humans, or inadvertently transported by them, is closely linked to a mapping of their journeys and settlements, and the movement of species in prehistoric times must be inferred from archaeological and palaeontological remains, centers of diversity, DNA samples and other sources.
Foliage of the Silvertree (
Leucadendron argenteum
)