Vahlia

The later homonym Vahlia Dahl is now known as Dombeya.

Vahlia is a genus of herbs and subshrubs that grow in Africa and the Indian subcontinent. There are at least five species.

Vahlia
Vahlia capensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Vahliales Doweld
Family:	Vahliaceae Airy Shaw
Genus:	Vahlia Thunb.
Species
5 species; see text.

The genus is placed alone in family Vahliaceae. This family had previously been placed in the order Saxifragales, and was reassigned to the new order Vahliales in 2016 by the APG IV system.^[1]

Species

1. Vahlia capensis (L. fil.) Thunb.;^[2] South Africa (Cape Prov.)
2. Vahlia dichotoma (J. A. Murr.) Kuntze,^[2] Mauritania, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Western Sahara, Mali, Senegal, Gambia, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, ?Togo, Central African Republic, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Chad, Zimbabwe, India, Sri Lanka
3. Vahlia digyna (Retz.) Kuntze ^[2] Egypt (Nile Valley), Pakistan (Baluchistan, Sind, Pakistani Punjab), NW-India, Botswana, Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, NE-Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Guinea-Bissau, Chad, etc., Madagascar
4. Vahlia geminiflora (Del.) Bridson ^[2] Egypt (Nile Valley), Iran (S-Iran), Iraq (SE-Iraq: Mesopotamia), Mali, Niger, N-Nigeria, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Mauritania
5. Vahlia somalensis Chiov.,^[2] Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya

References

1. Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 181 (1): 1–20. doi:10.1111/boj.12385.
2. "Genus Vahlia". ITIS/Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 3 May 2019.

• http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/orders/gentianalesweb.htm#Vahliaceae