Olea L.
Genus of about 35 species concentrated mainly in the tropics of the Old World. In North Africa it is represented by O. europaea, distributed through most of the African continent, Macaronesia, the Mediterranean region and western-central Asia.
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Updated by: M. Cueto, E. Giménez & J. Charco.