Conophytum truncatum(Thunb.) N.E.Br.

WFO wfo-0000619147 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Conophytum truncatum, photographed by Andrew Childs
fig. a Andrew Childs, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-15 / obs. 188822629
Conophytum truncatum, photographed by Andrew Childs
fig. b Andrew Childs, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188822816
Conophytum truncatum, photographed by Andrew Childs
fig. c Andrew Childs, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188822251
Conophytum truncatum, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. d Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162138959
Conophytum truncatum, photographed by Tim Kirsten
fig. e Tim Kirsten, CC0 1.0 / obs. 155721347
Conophytum truncatum, photographed by Tim Kirsten
fig. f Tim Kirsten, CC0 1.0 / obs. 155721366
Conophytum truncatum, photographed by Rebecca Ryen-Stols
fig. g Rebecca Ryen-Stols, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 155811500
Conophytum truncatum, photographed by Rebecca Ryen-Stols
fig. h Rebecca Ryen-Stols, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 155811502

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Conophytum truncatum is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Conophytum truncatum, 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 55 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.

  • Conophytum albertense (N.E.Br.) N.E.Br.
  • Conophytum angulare N.E.Br.
  • Conophytum archeri var. stayneri L.Bolus
  • Conophytum brevitubum Lavis
  • Conophytum caespitosum Tischer
  • Conophytum calitzdorpense L.Bolus
  • Conophytum calitzdorpense Tischer
  • Conophytum catervum (N.E.Br.) N.E.Br.
  • Conophytum cibdelum N.E.Br.
  • Conophytum complanatum L.Bolus
  • Conophytum dispar N.E.Br.
  • Conophytum fimbriatum (Sond.) N.E.Br.
  • Conophytum koupense Tisch.
  • Conophytum longitubum L.Bolus
  • Conophytum morganii Lavis
  • Conophytum muirii N.E.Br.
  • Conophytum multipunctatum Tischer
  • Conophytum novellum N.E.Br.
  • Conophytum nugale R.Br.
  • Conophytum orientale L.Bolus
  • Conophytum parvipunctum Tisch.
  • Conophytum peersii Lavis
  • Conophytum peersii var. multipunctatum (Tischer) Rawé
  • Conophytum permaculatum Tischer

and 31 more.

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.

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