Alepidea peduncularisSteud. ex A.Rich.

WFO wfo-0000525553 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Alepidea peduncularis, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-03-12 / obs. 183146036
Alepidea peduncularis, photographed by James Deacon
fig. b James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 115732565
Alepidea peduncularis, photographed by James Deacon
fig. c James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 115504240
Alepidea peduncularis, photographed by James Deacon
fig. d James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 115400452
Alepidea peduncularis, photographed by Aaliyah Motala
fig. e Aaliyah Motala, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 110097237
Alepidea peduncularis, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 64631339
Alepidea peduncularis, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 64253635
Alepidea peduncularis, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 63930850

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Alepidea peduncularis is native: Cape Provinces, DR Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Free State, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe Cape ProvincesDR CongoEswatiniEthiopiaFree StateKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMalawiMozambiqueNorthern ProvincesSomaliaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaUgandaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Alepidea peduncularis, 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
DR Congo ZAI
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Free State OFS
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Northern Provinces TVL
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 323 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 1.5 °C 5.2 °C 14.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 20.6 °C 24.9 °C 26.9 °C
Annual rainfall 770 mm 1,016 mm 1,630 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 25 mm 53 mm 139 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 323 research-grade observations of Alepidea peduncularis that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 20 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.

  • Alepidea coarctata Dümmer
  • Alepidea congesta Schltr. & H.Wolff
  • Alepidea fischeri (Engl.) Schltr. & H.Wolff
  • Alepidea galpinii Schltr. & H.Wolff
  • Alepidea glaucescens Schltr. & H.Wolff
  • Alepidea gracilis Dümmer
  • Alepidea gracilis var. major Weim.
  • Alepidea longifolia E.Mey. ex Dümmer
  • Alepidea longifolia subsp. coarctata (Dummer) Weim.
  • Alepidea longifolia subsp. propinqua (Dummer) Weim.
  • Alepidea longifolia subsp. swynnertonii (Dummer) Weim.
  • Alepidea longifolia var. angusta Dümmer
  • Alepidea massaica Schltr. & H.Wolff
  • Alepidea parva Compton
  • Alepidea peduncularis var. fischeri Engl.
  • Alepidea propinqua Dümmer
  • Alepidea swynnertonii Dümmer
  • Eryngium afrum Koso-Pol.
  • Eryngium caffrum Koso-Pol.
  • Eryngium pedunculare (Steud. ex A.Rich.) Koso-Pol.

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. 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.