Cadaba farinosaForssk.

cadaba

WFO wfo-0000578357 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.

Cadaba farinosa, photographed by Joan Willson
fig. a Joan Willson, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205125520
Cadaba farinosa, photographed by Joan Willson
fig. b Joan Willson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205125556
Cadaba farinosa, photographed by Joan Willson
fig. c Joan Willson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205125633

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000230877
Filed as
Cadaba farinosa Forssk.
Det. by
Graham, R.A.
Collected
Kirk 1873-09-01
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 35 botanical countries

Regions where Cadaba farinosa is native: Angola, Benin, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Djibouti, DR Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Western Sahara, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, India, Pakistan AngolaBeninBurkinaBurundiCameroonCentral African RepublicChadCongoDjiboutiDR CongoEgyptEritreaEthiopiaGambiaGhanaKenyaMaliMauritaniaMoroccoMozambiqueNigerNigeriaRwandaSenegalSomaliaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaUgandaWestern SaharaOmanSaudi ArabiaYemenIndiaPakistan
Native distribution of Cadaba farinosa, 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
Benin BEN
Burkina BKN
Burundi BUR
Cameroon CMN
Central African Republic CAF
Chad CHA
Congo CON
Djibouti DJI
DR Congo ZAI
Egypt EGY
Eritrea ERI
Ethiopia ETH
Gambia GAM
Ghana GHA
Kenya KEN
Mali MLI
Mauritania MTN
Morocco MOR
Mozambique MOZ
Niger NGR
Nigeria NGA
Rwanda RWA
Senegal SEN
Socotra SOC
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Western Sahara WSA
Oman OMA ASIA-TEMPERATE
Saudi Arabia SAU
Yemen YEM
India IND ASIA-TROPICAL
Pakistan PAK

Not drawn on the map: Socotra. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 10 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.

  • Cadaba adenotricha Gilg & Gilg-Ben.
  • Cadaba apiculata Gilg & Gilg-Ben.
  • Cadaba dubia DC.
  • Cadaba farinosa var. desertica Oliv. ex Chiov.
  • Cadaba heterotricha var. glabrata Chiov.
  • Cadaba miqueliana Turcz.
  • Cadaba mombassana Gilg & Gilg-Ben.
  • Streblocarpus fenzlii Parl.
  • Stroemia dubia (DC.) D.Dietr.
  • Stroemia farinosa (Forssk.) Vahl

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.