Exochaenium teuszii(Schinz) Schinz

WFO wfo-0000684456 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 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.

Exochaenium teuszii, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. a Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-05 / obs. 115643611
Exochaenium teuszii, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. b Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115643621
Exochaenium teuszii, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. c Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115643632
Exochaenium teuszii, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. d Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115643629

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K004600997
Filed as
Sebaea teuszii (Schinz) P.Taylor
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
Kassner 1908-03-13
Origin
CD
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Exochaenium teuszii is native: Angola, Congo, DR Congo, Guinea, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Zambia AngolaCongoDR CongoGuineaMozambiqueSierra LeoneTanzaniaZambia
Native distribution of Exochaenium teuszii, 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
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Guinea GUI
Mozambique MOZ
Sierra Leone SIE
Tanzania TAN
Zambia ZAM

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 14 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.

  • Belmontia chevalieri Abbayes & Schnell
  • Belmontia chionantha Gilg
  • Belmontia mechowiana Schinz
  • Belmontia teucszii Schinz
  • Belmontia teuszii Schinz
  • Belmontia teuszii var. angustifolia De Wild.
  • Exochaenium chionanthum (Gilg) Schinz
  • Exochaenium gentilii De Wild.
  • Exochaenium mechowianum (Schinz) Schinz
  • Sebaea gentilii (De Wild.) Boutique
  • Sebaea teucszii (Schinz) P.Taylor
  • Sebaea teuszii (Schinz) P.Taylor
  • Tachiadenus continentalis Baker
  • Tachiadenus mechowianus (Schinz) A.W.Hill

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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