Cleretum clavatum(Haw.) Klak

salt sandfig

WFO wfo-0001435088 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, 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.

Cleretum clavatum, photographed by Jacques van der Merwe
fig. a Jacques van der Merwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-09-29 / obs. 160493643
Cleretum clavatum, photographed by Chris Vynbos
fig. b Chris Vynbos, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15113534
Cleretum clavatum, photographed by Charles Stirton
fig. c Charles Stirton, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15094162
Cleretum clavatum, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. d Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15122351
Cleretum clavatum, photographed by Jacques van der Merwe
fig. e Jacques van der Merwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 160493688
Cleretum clavatum, photographed by Charles Stirton
fig. f Charles Stirton, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15094164
Cleretum clavatum, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. g Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15122353
Cleretum clavatum, photographed by Jacques van der Merwe
fig. h Jacques van der Merwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 25050094

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Cleretum clavatum is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Cleretum clavatum, 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

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 17 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.

  • Cleretum tricolor (Willd.) G.D.Rowley
  • Dorotheanthus clavatus (Haw.) Struck
  • Dorotheanthus gramineus f. albus (Haw.) G.D.Rowley
  • Dorotheanthus gramineus f. roseus (Haw.) G.D.Rowley
  • Dorotheanthus gramineus var. albus (Haw.) Schwantes
  • Dorotheanthus gramineus var. roseus (Haw.) Schwantes
  • Dorotheanthus tricolor (Willd.) L.Bolus
  • Mesembryanthemum apetalum Thunb.
  • Mesembryanthemum clavatum Haw.
  • Mesembryanthemum claviforme DC.
  • Mesembryanthemum lineare Thunb.
  • Mesembryanthemum pyropaeum var. album Haw.
  • Mesembryanthemum pyropeum Haw.
  • Mesembryanthemum tricolor Willd.
  • Mesembryanthemum tricolor var. album Haw.
  • Mesembryanthemum tricolor var. pyropaeum Haw.
  • Mesembryanthemum tricolor var. roseum Haw.

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.