Dais (plant)

Dais
Dais cotinifolia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Thymelaeaceae
Subfamily: Thymelaeoideae
Genus: Dais
Royen ex L.
Species

2, see text

Dais is a genus of flowering plants in the family Thymelaeaceae. It is also part of the Gnidia subfamily, along with Gnidia, Drapetes, Kelleria, Pimelea, Struthiola, Lachnaea and Passerina, other genera of species).[1] It is distributed between Tanzania to S. Africa, Madagascar. It is native to the countries of Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and it is also found within several Provinces of South Africa, such as Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal and Northern Provinces.[2]

  1. ^ Klaus Kubitzki and Clemens Bayer (editors) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons: Malvales, Capparales and Non-betalain Caryophyllales (2002), p. 38, at Google Books
  2. ^ "Dais Royen ex L. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 21 August 2021.