Adenandra uniflora(L.) Willd.

chinaflowershepherd's delight

WFO wfo-0000519817 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Adenandra uniflora, photographed by djsc0
fig. a djsc0, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-10-24 / obs. 165655928
Adenandra uniflora, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 173525517
Adenandra uniflora, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 173484564
Adenandra uniflora, photographed by flamelily
fig. d flamelily, CC0 1.0 / obs. 148365604
Adenandra uniflora, photographed by flamelily
fig. e flamelily, CC0 1.0 / obs. 91387958
Adenandra uniflora, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 90822028
Adenandra uniflora, photographed by Jeremy Gilmore
fig. g Jeremy Gilmore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 51993765
Adenandra uniflora, photographed by Jeremy Gilmore
fig. h Jeremy Gilmore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 51431755

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Adenandra uniflora is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Adenandra uniflora, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 14 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Adenandra linearis A.Juss.
  • Adenandra pottsii Dümmer
  • Adenandra uniflora var. isophylla Schltdl.
  • Adenandra uniflora var. linearis Sond.
  • Adenandra uniflora var. pubescens Sond.
  • Adenandra uniflora var. villosa Regel
  • Adenandra villosa hort. ex Harv. & Sond.
  • Diosma cistoides Lam.
  • Diosma linearis Thunb.
  • Diosma uniflora L.
  • Eriostemon capense Pers.
  • Eriostemon uniflorus (L.) Sm.
  • Glandulifolia uniflora (L.) J.C.Wendl.
  • Hartogia uniflora (L.) P.J.Bergius

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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