Camptorrhiza strumosa(Baker) Oberm.

WFO wfo-0000762912 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 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.

Camptorrhiza strumosa, photographed by Manuel R Popp
fig. a Manuel R Popp, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-12 / obs. 175728114
Camptorrhiza strumosa, photographed by Manuel R Popp
fig. b Manuel R Popp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175728152
Camptorrhiza strumosa, photographed by Manuel R Popp
fig. c Manuel R Popp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175728201
Camptorrhiza strumosa, photographed by Manuel R Popp
fig. d Manuel R Popp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175728240
Camptorrhiza strumosa, photographed by Manuel R Popp
fig. e Manuel R Popp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175728295
Camptorrhiza strumosa, photographed by Manuel R Popp
fig. f Manuel R Popp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175728350

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000499544
Filed as
Camptorrhiza strumosa (Baker) Oberm.
Det. by
Dr Paul Wilkin
Collected
Heath, A; R
Origin
BW
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 10 botanical countries

Regions where Camptorrhiza strumosa is native: Angola, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Zambia, Zimbabwe AngolaBotswanaCape ProvincesCaprivi StripKwaZulu-NatalMozambiqueNamibiaNorthern ProvincesZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Camptorrhiza strumosa, 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
Caprivi Strip CPV
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Mozambique MOZ
Namibia NAM
Northern Provinces TVL
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 14 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.

  • Camptorrhiza flexuosa (Baker) Sterling
  • Camptorrhiza junodii (Schinz) Sterling
  • Camptorrhiza schlechteri (Engl.) E.Phillips
  • Iphigenia dinteri Dammer ex Schinz
  • Iphigenia flexuosa Baker
  • Iphigenia guineensis Baker
  • Iphigenia junodii Schinz
  • Iphigenia schlechteri Engl.
  • Iphigenia strumosa Baker
  • Iphigeniopsis flexuosa (Baker) Buxb.
  • Iphigeniopsis junodii (Schinz) Buxb.
  • Iphigeniopsis schlechteri (Engl.) Buxb.
  • Iphigeniopsis strumosa (Baker) Buxb.
  • Melanthium guineense Welw. ex Baker

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.