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Flora of Democratic Republic of the Congo: Utilities: List of genus vernacular names

The use of English names for genera is a new feature of the site and at present content is somewhat limited.

Click on a letter below to take you to the first genus whose name begins with that letter.

A
Aloe
Angel's trumpets

B
Basket grasses
Bedstraws
Bog clubmosses
Brambles
Bristle grasses
Bristle grasses
Buckwheats
Buffalo beans

C
Catchflies
Coral-vines
Crowfoots

D
Dandelions
DC.
Docks
Dodder-laurels
Dodders

E
Everlasting flowers

F
False thorns
Fescues
Figs
Finger-grasses

f
firmosses or fir clubmosses

F
Fleabanes
Floating hearts
Flossflowers
Fumitories

G
Gaertn.
Gallant-soldiers
Geraniums
Gladioluses
Goosefoots
Ground pines or creeping cedar

H
Hogweeds
Hollies
Horsetails

J
Jasmines
Junipers

K
Knotgrasses
Knotweeds

L
L.
Lady's mantles
Larkspurs
Leadworts
Lineleaf ferns
Lucky-bean trees

M
Maidenhair fern
Mallows
Marigolds
Mints
Mistletoes
Mulberries

N
Naiads
Nasturtiums
Nettles
Nightshades

O
Oil palms
Orchid trees

P
Passion flowers
Pennyworts
Pineapples
Pondweeds

Q
Quillworts

R
Raffia palms
Red-hot pokers
Rhodes grasses

S
Saltbush, Orache
Shoelace fern
Spade flowers
Speedwells
Squashes and gourds (Cultivated genus)
Starburs
Sundews

T
Tapegrasses
Thatching-grasses
Thorn trees
Tobaccos

V
Valerians
Vlei-lilies

W
Water clover or clover fern.
Water-plantains
Willowherbs
Willows
Witchweeds

Y
Yams
Yellow-woods

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