Combretum afrum (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Kuntze
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Summary
Combretum afrum, commonly known as Cape bushwillow, is a species of tree native to South Africa. It is endemic to the Cape Provinces.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Combretum afrum", CC BY-SA 4.0.
About the genus · Combretum
Combretum, the bushwillows or combretums, make up the type genus of the family Combretaceae. The genus comprises about 272 species of trees and shrubs, most of which are native to tropical and southern Africa, about 5 to Madagascar, but there are others that are native to tropical Asia, New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago, Australia, and tropical America.
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Other Combretum 28 in the reference
Combretum albidum Combretaceae Photo: CC BY, Ravuri Krishna Chaitanya
Combretum apiculatum Red bushwillow Photo: CC BY-SA, Rebecca Ryen-Stols
Combretum bracteosum Hiccup-nut Photo: CC BY-SA, Margaret Burger
Combretum celastroides Jesse-bush Combretum Photo: CC BY, Mathew Rees
Combretum coccineum Combretaceae Photo: CC BY, jeanjacquesgodon
Combretum collinum Combretaceae Photo: CC0, rosshawkins
Combretum constrictum Powderpuff Combretum Photo: CC BY, Thorsten Hackbarth
Combretum densiflorum Combretaceae Photo: CC BY, Nguyen-Khanh-Trinh Tram
Combretum erythrophyllum Bush-willow Photo: CC0, author not stated
Combretum falcatum Combretaceae Photo: CC BY, Julien Renoult
Combretum farinosum Combretaceae Photo: CC BY, Andrea Gantzer
Combretum fruticosum Combretaceae Photo: CC BY, Alexis López Hernández all 29 ›Names & registers
Also known as Dodonaea dubia; Dodonaea conglomerata; Combretum salicifolium; Dodonaea afra. (WCVP, RBG Kew)
The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Combretum afrum (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Kuntze (plant_name_id 2732470), read from Kew's names filegbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.occurrences not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedwcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04climate not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked, and the habitat climate is read only from themwikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 169982-1, POWO 169982-1wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22inat.photos.wild not askedinat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedcommons answeredasked 2026-10-22openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence.