This is a list of Southern African trees, shrubs, suffrutices, geoxyles and lianes, and is intended to cover Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The notion of 'indigenous' is of necessity a blurred concept, and is clearly a function of both time and political boundaries. The global distribution of plants useful to humans, or inadvertently transported by them, is closely linked to a mapping of their journeys and settlements, and the movement of species in prehistoric times must be inferred from archaeological and palaeontological remains, centers of diversity, DNA samples and other sources.
Cyatheaceae
Cyathea capensis (L.f.) J.E. Sm. (Hemitelia capensis Kaulf.) Cyathea dregei Kunze (Alsophila dregei (Kunze) R.M. Tryon) Cyathea manniana Hook. Alsophila thomsonii (Baker) R.M. Tryon (Cyathea thomsonii Baker)
Blechnaceae
Lomariocycas tabularis (Thunb.) Kuhn
Cycadaceae
Cycas thouarsii R.Br.
Zamiaceae
Encephalartos aemulans Vorster
Encephalartos altensteinii Lehm. Encephalartos cupidus R.A. Dyer Encephalartos dolomiticus Lavranos & D.L. Goode Encephalartos eugene-maraisii Verdoorn Encephalartos ferox Bertol.f. Encephalartos friderici-guilielmi Lehm. Encephalartos ghellinckii Lem. Encephalartos heenanii R.A. Dyer Encephalartos hirsutus P.J.H.Hurter Encephalartos humilis Verdoorn Encephalartos inopinus R.A. Dyer Encephalartos lanatus Stapf & Burtt Davy Encephalartos laevifolius Stapf & Burtt Davy Encephalartos latifrons Lehm. Encephalartos lebomboensis Verdoorn Encephalartos lehmannii Lehm. Encephalartos longifolius (Jacq.) Lehm. Encephalartos manikensis (Gilliland) Gilliland Encephalartos middelburgensis Vorster, Robbertse & S.van der Westh. Encephalartos natalensis R.A. Dyer & Verdoorn Encephalartos paucidentatus Stapf & Burtt Davy Encephalartos princeps R.A. Dyer Encephalartos schmitzii Malaisse Encephalartos transvenosus Stapf & Burtt Davy Encephalartos umbeluziensis R.A. Dyer Encephalartos villosus Lem. Encephalartos woodii Sander
Podocarpaceae
Afrocarpus falcatus (Thunb.) C.N.Page
Podocarpus elongatus L'Herit. ex Pers. Podocarpus henkelii Stapf ex Dallim. & Jacks. Podocarpus latifolius (Thunb.) R.Br. ex Mirb. Podocarpus milanjianus Rendle
Cupressaceae
Widdringtonia nodiflora (L.) Powrie (Widdringtonia cupressoides (L.) Endl.) Widdringtonia schwarzii (Marloth) Mast. Widdringtonia wallichii Endl. ex Carrière (Widdringtonia cedarbergensis J.A.Marsh) Widdringtonia whytei Rendle Juniperus procera Hochst. ex Endl.
Welwitschiaceae
Welwitschia mirabilis Hook.f. (Welwitschia bainesii (Hook.f.) Carr.)
Poaceae
Thamnocalamus tessellatus (Nees) Soderstrom & R.P.Ellis (Arundinaria tessellata) Oreobambos buchwaldii K.Schum. Oxytenanthera abyssinica (A.Rich.) Munro
Pandanaceae
Pandanus livingstonianus Rendle
Arecaceae
Phoenix reclinata Jacq. Hyphaene coriacea Gaertn. (Hyphaene natalensis Kunze, Hyphaene crinita) Hyphaene petersiana Klotzsch ex Mart. (Hyphaene benguelensis Welw. ex H.Wendl.) (Hyphaene ventricosa J.Kirk) Borassus aethiopum Mart. Raphia australis Oberm. & Strey Raphia farinifera (Gaertn.) Hyl. Jubaeopsis caffra Becc.
Araceae
Culcasia scandens P.Beauv.
Flagellariaceae
Flagellaria guineensis Schumach.
Asphodelaceae
Aloe africana Mill. Aloe alooides (H. Bol.) V. Druten Aloe angelica Pole-Evans Aloe arborescens Mill. (Aloe mutabilis Pillans) Aloe cameronii Hemsl. Aloe castanea Schonl. Aloe comosa Marloth & Berger Aloe dolomitica Groenewald Aloe excelsa Berger Aloe ferox Mill. (Aloe candelabrum Berger) Aloe khamiensis Pillans Aloe littoralis Bak. Aloe marlothii Berger (Aloe spectabilis Reynolds) Aloe munchii Christian Aloe pearsonii Schönland Aloe pluridens Haw. Aloe pretoriensis Pole-Evans Aloe rupestris Bak. Aloe sessiliflora Pole-Evans Aloe speciosa Bak. Aloe spectabilis Reynolds Aloe thraskii Bak. Aloidendron barberae (Dyer) Klopper & Gideon F.Sm. (Aloe barberae Dyer, Aloe bainesii Dyer) Aloidendron dichotomum (Masson) Klopper & Gideon F.Sm. Aloidendron pillansii (L.Guthrie) Klopper & Gideon F.Sm. Aloidendron ramosissimum (Pillans) Klopper & Gideon F.Sm. Kumara plicatilis (L.) G.D.Rowley
Asparagaceae
Asparagus falcatus L. Asparagus longicladus N.E.Br. Dracaena aletriformis (Haw.) Bos (Dracaena hookeriana K. Koch) Dracaena camerooniana Baker Dracaena laxissima Engl. Dracaena mannii Bak. (Dracaena usambarensis Engl., Dracaena reflexa var. nitens (Welw. ex Baker) Baker) Dracaena reflexa Lam. Dracaena steudneri Engl. Dracaena transvaalensis Baker