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Common name

English: Shiny-leaf Buckthorn

German: Afrikanischer Faulbaum

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2599)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2496)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2111)

      Order: Rhamnales (25)

        Family: Rhamnaceae (8)(family description)

          Genus: Rhamnus (4)

            Epithet: prinoides L. (2)

prinoides => means, "resembles Prinos", which is the Greek name for Q. coccinea

Characteristics

Climate: sub-tropical

Habit: shrub, arborescent

Flower colour: green, yellow

External links

Check for Rhamnus prinoides at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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