Crabbea nana(Nees) Nees

WFO wfo-0000624392 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 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.

Crabbea nana, photographed by Andrew Deacon
fig. a Andrew Deacon, CC0 1.0 / 2018-09-27 / obs. 29280099
Crabbea nana, photographed by Andrew Deacon
fig. b Andrew Deacon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 29280097
Crabbea nana, photographed by Andrew Deacon
fig. c Andrew Deacon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 29280096
Crabbea nana, photographed by Andrew Deacon
fig. d Andrew Deacon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 29305255
Crabbea nana, photographed by Andrew Deacon
fig. e Andrew Deacon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 29280100

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Crabbea nana is native: Angola, Cape Provinces, Eswatini, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Zambia, Zimbabwe AngolaCape ProvincesEswatiniFree StateKwaZulu-NatalLesothoMalawiMozambiqueNamibiaNorthern ProvincesZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Crabbea nana, 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
Cape Provinces CPP
Eswatini SWZ
Free State OFS
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Lesotho LES
Malawi MLW
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 3 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.

  • Crabbea galpinii C.B.Clarke
  • Crabbea pedunculata N.E.Br.
  • Ruellia nana Nees

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.