Blumea afra(DC.) O.Hoffm.

WFO wfo-0000079354 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Blumea afra, photographed by Caroline Voget
fig. a Caroline Voget, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-17 / obs. 200706900
Blumea afra, photographed by Caroline Voget
fig. b Caroline Voget, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200706862
Blumea afra, photographed by Caroline Voget
fig. c Caroline Voget, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200706877

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000273922
Filed as
Doellia cafra (DC.) Anderb.
Det. by
Hind, D.J.N.
Collected
Baron, R.
Origin
MG
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Blumea afra is native: Angola, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe AngolaBotswanaCape ProvincesEswatiniEthiopiaKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMadagascarMozambiqueNamibiaNorthern ProvincesTanzaniaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Blumea afra, 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
Cape Provinces CPP
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Madagascar MDG
Mozambique MOZ
Namibia NAM
Northern Provinces TVL
Tanzania TAN
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 9 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.

  • Blumea cafra (DC.) O.Hoffm.
  • Blumea natalensis Sch.Bip.
  • Conyza afra DC.
  • Conyza cafra DC.
  • Conyza natalensis Sch.Bip.
  • Conyza thermarum Baker
  • Doellia afra (DC.) Anderb.
  • Doellia cafra (DC.) Anderb.
  • Doellia kotschyi Sch.Bip.

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.

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