Echinocyathula lanceolata(Schinz) Borsch, Di Vincenzo & Wondafr.

WFO wfo-1000088116 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 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.

Echinocyathula lanceolata, photographed by rosshawkins
fig. a rosshawkins, CC0 1.0 / 2021-07-20 / obs. 144850654
Echinocyathula lanceolata, photographed by rosshawkins
fig. b rosshawkins, CC0 1.0 / obs. 144850752
Echinocyathula lanceolata, photographed by rosshawkins
fig. c rosshawkins, CC0 1.0 / obs. 144850844

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K005773402
Filed as
Cyathula crispa Schinz
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
[A.D.J. Melu]
Origin
ZA
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Echinocyathula lanceolata is native: Botswana, Free State, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Tanzania, Zimbabwe BotswanaFree StateMozambiqueNamibiaNorthern ProvincesTanzaniaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Echinocyathula lanceolata, 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
Botswana BOT AFRICA
Free State OFS
Mozambique MOZ
Namibia NAM
Northern Provinces TVL
Tanzania TAN
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 15 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.

  • Cyathula crispa Schinz
  • Cyathula deserti (N.E.Br.) Suess.
  • Cyathula hereroensis Schinz
  • Cyathula lanceolata Schinz
  • Cyathula lanceolata var. scabrida Schinz
  • Cyathula merkeri Gilg
  • Cyathula merkeri var. strigosa Suess.
  • Cyathula strigosa Suess.
  • Cyphocarpa kuehlweiniana Peter
  • Cyphocarpa kuehlweiniana var. melanacantha Peter
  • Pandiaka deserti N.E.Br.
  • Pandiaka lanceolata (Schinz) C.B.Clarke
  • Pandiaka wildii Suess.
  • Sericocomopsis lanceolata (Schinz) Peter
  • Sericocomopsis lanceolata var. merkeri (Gilg) Peter

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.