Ammannia crassicaulisGuill. & Perr.

WFO wfo-0000530963 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Ammannia crassicaulis, photographed by Carlos G Velazco-Macias
fig. a Carlos G Velazco-Macias, CC0 1.0 / 2020-01-20 / obs. 60597716
Ammannia crassicaulis, photographed by Carlos G Velazco-Macias
fig. b Carlos G Velazco-Macias, CC0 1.0 / obs. 60597727
Ammannia crassicaulis, photographed by pbsg
fig. c pbsg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173717623
Ammannia crassicaulis, photographed by pbsg
fig. d pbsg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173717629
Ammannia crassicaulis, photographed by pbsg
fig. e pbsg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173717635

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Ammannia crassicaulis is native: Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Caprivi Strip, Central African Republic, Chad, DR Congo, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Northern Provinces, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe AngolaBotswanaCameroonCaprivi StripCentral African RepublicChadDR CongoGuineaGuinea-BissauIvory CoastKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMadagascarMauritaniaMozambiqueNigerNorthern ProvincesSenegalTanzaniaUgandaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Ammannia crassicaulis, 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
Angola ANG AFRICA
Botswana BOT
Cameroon CMN
Caprivi Strip CPV
Central African Republic CAF
Chad CHA
DR Congo ZAI
Guinea GUI
Guinea-Bissau GNB
Ivory Coast IVO
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Madagascar MDG
Mauritania MTN
Mozambique MOZ
Niger NGR
Northern Provinces TVL
Senegal SEN
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.

Also published as 2 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.

  • Nesaea crassicaulis (Guill. & Perr.) Koehne
  • Nesaea polyantha Tul.

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.