Clutia alaternoidesL.

broaf-leaved clutia

WFO wfo-0000895285 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Clutia alaternoides, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-10-24 / obs. 165966382
Clutia alaternoides, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 167775687
Clutia alaternoides, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 160519953
Clutia alaternoides, photographed by Andrew Gillespie
fig. d Andrew Gillespie, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 125733246
Clutia alaternoides, photographed by Jeremy Gilmore
fig. e Jeremy Gilmore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119467004
Clutia alaternoides, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 147997490
Clutia alaternoides, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 90826067
Clutia alaternoides, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 58876576

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Clutia alaternoides is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Clutia alaternoides, 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 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.

  • Clutia alaternoides f. brevifolia Müll.Arg.
  • Clutia alaternoides f. glauca (Pax ex Zahlbr.) Pax
  • Clutia alaternoides f. imbricata Müll.Arg.
  • Clutia alaternoides f. lanceolata Sond.
  • Clutia alaternoides f. leptophylla Müll.Arg.
  • Clutia alaternoides f. longifolia Müll.Arg.
  • Clutia alaternoides f. obovata Müll.Arg.
  • Clutia alaternoides lus. acutangula Müll.Arg.
  • Clutia alaternoides lus. floribunda Müll.Arg.
  • Clutia alaternoides lus. oxygona Müll.Arg.
  • Clutia alaternoides var. alaternoides
  • Clutia alaternoides var. angustifolia Müll.Arg.
  • Clutia alaternoides var. genuina Müll.Arg.
  • Clutia alaternoides var. lanceolata (Sond.) Müll.Arg.
  • Clutia angulata Burch. ex Prain
  • Clutia floribunda Baill.
  • Clutia glauca Pax
  • Clutia myrtifolia Burch. ex Prain
  • Clutia polygalifolia Salisb.

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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