Pemphis
Botanical name: Pemphis
Pemphis
Botanical name: Pemphis
Description
It was recently thought have only one species but is now believed to have at least two. Depending on environmental factors, they are densely branched, or low and spreading bushes or short trees, with main stems that can be furcated and lie nearly prone, or develop into one erect trunk. Leaves can be small, fleshy and succulent, or larger, flat and not fleshy. They are not common, but far ranging from coastal, eastern Africa, states with Indian Ocean coastlines, to the Pacific, northwards up to the Ryukyu Islands and many other places. 
Scientific Classification
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