Ximenia afra(XIMCA)
Overview Code created in: 1996-10-28
- EPPO Code: XIMCA
- Preferred name: Ximenia afra
- Authority: Sonder
Eastern and southern Africa (except South Africa)
Note that in 2024 the International Botanical Congress voted to replace words such as caffra, which is considered a racial slur, and appears in over 300 plants, fungi and algae names, with the words afra, afrorum, and afrum to denote their African origins.
| Name | Authority |
|---|---|
| Ximenia caffra | Sonder |
| Name | Language |
|---|---|
| sourplum | English (ZA) |
| grootsuurpruim | Afrikaans |
| suurpruim | Afrikaans |
Kingdom
Plantae (
1PLAK )
Phylum
Magnoliophyta (
1MAGP )
Class
Angiospermae (
1ANGC )
Category
Basal core eudicots (
1CEUD )
Order
Santalales (
1SANO )
Family
Olacaceae (
1OLAF )
Genus
Ximenia (
1XIMG )
Species
Ximenia afra (
XIMCA )