Alafia (plant)

Alafia is a genus of lianas or climbing shrubs found in tropical Africa and Madagascar. The World Checklist of Selected Plant Families recognises 26 species:

• # Alafia alba Pichon

• # Alafia barteri Oliv.

• # Alafia benthamii (Baill.) Stapf

• # Alafia berrieri Jum.

• # Alafia calophylla Pichon

• # Alafia caudata Stapf

• # Alafia erythrophthalma (K.Schum) Leeuwenb.

• # Alafia falcata Leeuwenb.

• # Alafia fuscata Pichon

• # Alafia insularis Pichon

• # Alafia intermedia Pichon

• # Alafia landolphioides (A.DC.) K.Schum

• # Alafia lucida Stapf

• # Alafia microstylis K.Schum

• # Alafia multiflora (Stapf) Stapf

• # Alafia nigrescens Pichon

• # Alafia orientalis K.Schum ex De Wild.

• # Alafia parciflora Stapf

• # Alafia pauciflora Radlk.

• # Alafia perrieri Jum.

• # Alafia schumannii Stapf

• # Alafia thouarsii Roem. & Schult.

• # Alafia vallium Pichon

• # Alafia verschuerenii De Wild.

• # Alafia whytei Stapf

• # Alafia zambesiaca Kupicha