Bupleurum affineSadler

WFO wfo-0000575011 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC0

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.

Bupleurum affine, photographed by Gabriel Mayrhofer
fig. a Gabriel Mayrhofer, CC0 1.0 / 2021-08-16 / obs. 152641955
Bupleurum affine, photographed by Gabriel Mayrhofer
fig. b Gabriel Mayrhofer, CC0 1.0 / obs. 152641972
Bupleurum affine, photographed by Gabriel Mayrhofer
fig. c Gabriel Mayrhofer, CC0 1.0 / obs. 152641155

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Bupleurum affine is native: North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, Greece, Hungary, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, Ukraine North CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaGreeceHungaryKrymNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaUkraine
Native distribution of Bupleurum affine, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
Ukraine UKR
North Caucasus NCS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR

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 19 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.

  • Bupleurum affine f. breviradiatum (Rchb.) H.Wolff
  • Bupleurum affine f. stribrnyi H.Wolff
  • Bupleurum affine f. virgatum (Rchb.) H.Wolff
  • Bupleurum affine var. sparsum Simonk.
  • Bupleurum breviradiatum (Rchb.) Wettst.
  • Bupleurum breviradiatum var. brachyradiatum Wettst.
  • Bupleurum breviradiatum var. longiradiatum Wettst.
  • Bupleurum dichotomum Steven
  • Bupleurum gerardi var. breviradiatum Rchb.
  • Bupleurum gerardi var. virgatum Rchb.
  • Bupleurum gerardi var. virgatum Guss.
  • Bupleurum gerardii Jacq.
  • Bupleurum gerardii var. breviradiatum Rchb.
  • Bupleurum jumceum subsp. gerardii (Jacq.) Wettst.
  • Bupleurum junceum subsp. affine (Sadler) Bonnier & Layens
  • Bupleurum junceum var. affine (Sadler) Arcang.
  • Bupleurum junceum var. gerardii (Jacq.) Spreng.
  • Bupleurum junceum var. intermedium Lange
  • Isophyllum affine Schur

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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