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Collection Holdings native to Chad:

Apocynaceae

    Subfamily Apocynoideae
    Tribe Nerieae

    • Adenium obesum - eastern Africa, northern Arabia
    • Adenium obesum - Socotra

    Subfamily Asclepiadoideae
    Tribe Ceropegieae

    • Ceropegia aristolochioides - Senegal to Eritrea and Tanzania, SW. Arabian Pen.

    Araceae

      Subfamily Aroideae
      Tribe Pisteae

      • Pistia stratiotes - Pantropical

      Subfamily Lemnoideae

      • Lemna minor - Cosmopolitan

      Asparagaceae

        Subfamily Asparagoideae

        • Asparagus africanus - Trop. & S. Africa, Arabian Pen., W. India

        Celastraceae

        • Gymnosporia senegalensis - southern Africa

        Ceratophyllaceae

        • Ceratophyllum demersum - cosmopolitan, native to all continents except Antarctica.

        Colchicaceae

          Subfamily
          Tribe Colchiceae

          • Gloriosa superba - Trop. & S. Africa, W. Indian Ocean, Indian Subcontinent to Lesser Sunda

          Costaceae

          • Costus spectabilis - Trop. Africa

          Cyperaceae

            Subfamily Cyperoideae
            Tribe Cypereae

            • Cyperus alternifolius - Trop. & S. Africa, W. Indian Ocean, Arabian Pen.
            • Cyperus papyrus - North & Tropical Africa

            Subfamily Cyperoideae
            Tribe Eleocharideae

            • Eleocharis dulcis - Trop. & Subtrop. Old World

            Dioscoreaceae

            • Dioscorea bulbifera - tropical east Africa to Asia

            Droseraceae

            • Aldrovanda vesiculosa - Darwin, Australia W/C

            Fabaceae

              Subfamily Caesalpinioideae
              Tribe Detarieae

              • Tamarindus indica - tropical Africa

              Lentibulariaceae

              • Utricularia gibba - Trop. & Subtrop. Old World, America

              Marantaceae

              • Thalia geniculata - Trop. Africa, SE. U.S.A. to Trop. America

              Nymphaeaceae

              • Nymphaea nouchali var. caerulea - tropical to southern Africa

              Poaceae

                Subfamily Oryzoideae
                Tribe Oryzeae

                • Oryza glaberrima - W. Trop. Africa to Chad

                Subfamily Panicoideae
                Tribe Paniceae

                • Stenotaphrum secundatum - SE. U.S.A. to E. & S. South America, W. Trop. Africa to Chad

                Rubiaceae

                  Subfamily Ixoroideae
                  Tribe Vanguerieae

                  • Vangueria madagascariensis - Trop. & S. Africa, Madagascar

                  Solanaceae

                    Subfamily Solanoideae
                    Tribe Physaleae

                    • Withania somnifera - Africa. southern Europe and western Asia

                    Taccaceae

                    • Tacca leontopetaloides - Trop. Old World to Pacific

                    Vitaceae

                      Subfamily Vitoideae

                      • Cissus quadrangularis - Tropical Africa & Asia

                      Zingiberaceae

                        Subfamily Siphonochiloideae
                        Tribe Siphonochileae

                        • Siphonochilus kirkii - Central African Rep. to Sudan and Caprivi Strip
                        The EEB Greenhouses are currently cultivating 26 accessions native to Chad

                        W/C = Wild Collected
                        = indicates flowering in past 14 days
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                        = accession added within past 90 days

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