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 )
Encephalartos woodii
Podocarpus latifolius
Aloidendron dichotomum
Aloidendron pillansii
Dracaena aletriformis
Xerophyta retinervis
Ficus thonningii
Brabejum stellatifolium
Colpoon compressum
Arthraerua leubnitziae
Caliocorema capitata
Annona senegalensis
Ocotea bullata
Boscia albitrunca
Cunonia capensis
Albizia adianthifolia
Acacia karroo
Acacia nigrescens
Acacia xanthophloea
Senna petersiana
Bolusanthus speciosus
Agathosma betulina
Zanthoxylum davyi
Commiphora harveyi
Euphorbia cooperi
Euphorbia damarana
Protorhus longifolia
Rhus pendulina
Maytenus procumbens
Pterocelastrus tricuspidatus
Cassine burkeana
Cassinopsis ilicifolia
Sterculia murex
Hypericum revolutum
Combretum bracteosum
Combretum imberbe
Terminalia phanerophlebia
Erica canaliculata
Maesa lanceolata
Diospyros whyteana
Acokanthera oppositifolia
Strophanthus speciosus
Buddleja dysophylla
Mackaya bella