User:ENEvery/sandbox/Joburg taxa

A temporary compendium of taxa recorded surviving without deliberate human assistance in the Witwatersrand region (naturalised, including invasive and extralimital, taxa indented). This exists to organise information meant for a number of the articles I intend to create on the biodiversity of Greater Johannesburg. References for each species still upcoming. Ideally I'd still like to, at some point, turn all redlinks into articles.

'''Very much still a work in progress! As of 20 January 2023.'''

Cyatheaceae

 * Alsophila
 * A. dregei (grassland tree fern; indigenous)

Pteridaceae

 * Pellaea
 * P. calomelanos (hard fern; indigenous)
 * P. viridis (green cliffbrake; indigenous)

Pinaceae

 * Pinus
 * P. roxburghii (chir pine; invasive)

Anacardiaceae

 * Searsia
 * S. chirindensis (red currant; extralimital)
 * S. lancea (karee; indigenous)
 * S. leptodictya (mountain karee; indigenous)

Araliaceae

 * Cussonia
 * C. paniculata (Highveld cabbage tree; indigenous)
 * C. spicata (common cabbage tree; indigenous)

Arecaceae

 * Phoenix
 * P. canariensis (Canarian date palm; naturalised)

Asphodelaceae

 * Aloe
 * A. marlothii (mountain aloe; indigenous)

Asteraceae

 * Euryops
 * E. chrysanthemoides (African bush daisy; extralimital)

Bignoniaceae

 * Jacaranda
 * J. mimosifolia (jacaranda; invasive)

Buddlejaceae

 * Buddleja
 * Buddleja saligna (false olive; indigenous)

Cactaceae

 * Cereus
 * C. jamacaru (queen of the night; invasive)
 * Opuntia
 * O. ficus-indica (sweet prickly pear; invasive)

Cannabaceae

 * Celtis
 * C. africana (white stinkwood; indigenous)
 * C. orientalis (Chinese hackberry; invasive)

Combretaceae

 * Combretum
 * C. apiculatum subsp. apiculatum (red bushwillow; indigenous)
 * C. erythrophyllum (river bushwillow; indigenous)
 * C. molle (velvet bushwillow; indigenous)
 * C. zeyheri (large-fruited bushwillow; indigenous)

Euphorbiaceae

 * Croton
 * C. gratissimus (lavender fever-berry; indigenous)
 * Euphorbia
 * E. cooperi (Transvaal candelabra tree; indigenous)
 * E. ingens (common tree euphorbia; indigenous)

Fabaceae

 * Dichrostachys
 * D. cinerea (sicklebush; indigenous)
 * Vachellia
 * V. karroo (common acacia; indigenous)
 * V. nilotica subsp. kraussiana (scented-pod acacia; indigenous)

Lamiaceae

 * Leonotis
 * L. nepetifolia (klip dagga; indigenous)

Meliaceae

 * Melia
 * M. azedarach (Persian lilac; invasive)

Moraceae

 * Ficus
 * F. ingens (red-leaved fig; indigenous)
 * F. salicifolia (wonderboom; indigenous)
 * Morus
 * M. alba (white mulberry; invasive)

Oleaceae

 * Olea
 * O. europaea subsp. africana (wild olive; indigenous)

Papaveraceae

 * Papaver
 * P. aculeatum (wild poppy; indigenous)
 * P. rhoeas (common poppy; naturalised)

Poaceae

 * Aristida
 * A. canescens (cat's tail three-awn grass; indigenous)
 * A. congesta (pale three-awn grass; indigenous)
 * Cynodon
 * C. dactylon (couch grass; indigenous)
 * Digitaria
 * D. monodactyla (one-finger grass; indigenous)
 * Eragrostis
 * E. capensis (Cape lovegrass; indigenous)
 * E. chloromelas (blue lovegrass; indigenous)
 * E. curvula (weeping lovegrass; indigenous)
 * E. racemosa (smalhartjiegras; indigenous)
 * Heteropogon
 * H. contortus (spear grass; indigenous)
 * Hyparrhenia
 * H. hirta (common thatching grass; indigenous)
 * Melinis
 * Melinis repens subsp. repens (Natal red-top grass; indigenous)

Proteaceae

 * Protea
 * P. caffra (common sugarbush; indigenous)
 * P. roupelliae subsp. roupelliae (silver sugarbush; indigenous)
 * P. welwitschii (cluster-head sugarbush; indigenous)

Rutaceae

 * Calodendrum
 * C. capense (Cape chestnut; indigenous)

Sapotaceae

 * Mimusops
 * M. zeyheri (Transvaal red milkwood; indigenous)

Simaroubaceae

 * Ailanthus
 * A. altissima (tree-of-heaven; invasive)

Mollusca

 * Cornu
 * C. aspersum (garden snail; invasive)