Ancylobothrys petersiana(Klotzsch) Pierre

WFO wfo-0000971019 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Ancylobothrys petersiana, photographed by Ronald Flipphi
fig. a Ronald Flipphi, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2017-09-16 / obs. 31152595
Ancylobothrys petersiana, photographed by Ronald Flipphi
fig. b Ronald Flipphi, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 31143086
Ancylobothrys petersiana, photographed by Hlengiwe Mtshali
fig. c Hlengiwe Mtshali, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 39732254
Ancylobothrys petersiana, photographed by Jay Pruett
fig. d Jay Pruett, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200149270
Ancylobothrys petersiana, photographed by Ronald Flipphi
fig. e Ronald Flipphi, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 31152597
Ancylobothrys petersiana, photographed by Ronald Flipphi
fig. f Ronald Flipphi, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 31143088
Ancylobothrys petersiana, photographed by Robert Taylor
fig. g Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 15689181
Ancylobothrys petersiana, photographed by Robert Taylor
fig. h Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 15689183

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Ancylobothrys petersiana is native: Burundi, Chad, Comoros, DR Congo, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Somalia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe BurundiChadDR CongoKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMadagascarMalawiMozambiqueNorthern ProvincesSomaliaTanzaniaZimbabwe Comoros
Native distribution of Ancylobothrys petersiana, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Burundi BUR AFRICA
Chad CHA
Comoros COM
DR Congo ZAI
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Madagascar MDG
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Northern Provinces TVL
Somalia SOM
Tanzania TAN
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 80 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 12.8 °C 17.3 °C 19.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.1 °C 27.9 °C 32.7 °C
Annual rainfall 569 mm 1,042 mm 1,386 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 30 mm 112 mm 167 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 80 research-grade observations of Ancylobothrys petersiana 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 17 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.

  • Ancylobothrys rotundifolia (Dewèvre) Pierre
  • Landolphia angustifolia K.Schum. ex Engl.
  • Landolphia monteiroi [N.E.Br.]
  • Landolphia petersiana [Dyer]
  • Landolphia petersiana var. rotundifolia Dewèvre
  • Landolphia petersiana var. rufa Stapf
  • Landolphia petersiana var. tubeufii Busse ex Stapf
  • Landolphia scandens var. angustifolia (K.Schum. ex Engl.) Hallier f.
  • Landolphia scandens var. petersiana (Klotzsch) Hallier f.
  • Landolphia scandens var. rotundifolia (Dewèvre) Hallier f.
  • Landolphia scandens var. stuhlmanniana Hallier f.
  • Landolphia scandens var. tubeufii (Busse ex Stapf) Busse
  • Landolphia senensis (Klotzsch) K.Schum.
  • Pacouria angustifolia (K.Schum. ex Engl.) Kuntze
  • Pacouria petersiana (Klotzsch) S.Moore
  • Willughbeia petersiana Klotzsch
  • Willughbeia senensis Klotzsch

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.