Canthium ciliatum(Klotzsch ex Eckl. & Zeyh.) Kuntze

hairy turkeyberry

WFO wfo-0000796759 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Canthium ciliatum, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. a Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 192183339
Canthium ciliatum, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. b Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111273303
Canthium ciliatum, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. c Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106213862
Canthium ciliatum, photographed by Alan Manson
fig. d Alan Manson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 62441525
Canthium ciliatum, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. e Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164953409
Canthium ciliatum, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. f Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 124058490
Canthium ciliatum, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. g Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66900102
Canthium ciliatum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15258358

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Canthium ciliatum is native: Cape Provinces, Eswatini, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Provinces Cape ProvincesEswatiniFree StateKwaZulu-NatalNorthern Provinces
Native distribution of Canthium ciliatum, 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
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA
Eswatini SWZ
Free State OFS
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Northern Provinces TVL

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 4 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.

  • Plectronia ciliata (Klotzsch ex Eckl. & Zeyh.) D.Dietr.
  • Plectronia ciliata var. glabrata Sond.
  • Plectronia ciliata var. mollis Sond.
  • Psilostoma ciliata Klotzsch ex Eckl. & Zeyh.

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.

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