Keetia gueinzii(Sond.) Bridson

WFO wfo-0000220714 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Keetia gueinzii, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. a Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 192185571
Keetia gueinzii, photographed by Andrew Deacon
fig. b Andrew Deacon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 145304987
Keetia gueinzii, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. c Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 91088220
Keetia gueinzii, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. d Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 90473666
Keetia gueinzii, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. e Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 89248635
Keetia gueinzii, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. f Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76064371
Keetia gueinzii, photographed by Andrew Deacon
fig. g Andrew Deacon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 24972708
Keetia gueinzii, photographed by Christoph Moning
fig. h Christoph Moning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59797302

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Keetia gueinzii is native: Angola, Burundi, Cabinda, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Republic, DR Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe AngolaBurundiCabindaCameroonCape ProvincesCentral African RepublicDR CongoEswatiniEthiopiaGabonKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMalawiMozambiqueNorthern ProvincesRwandaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaUgandaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Keetia gueinzii, 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
Burundi BUR
Cabinda CAB
Cameroon CMN
Cape Provinces CPP
Central African Republic CAF
DR Congo ZAI
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Gabon GAB
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Northern Provinces TVL
Rwanda RWA
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 190 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 4.1 °C 9.7 °C 15.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.8 °C 25.8 °C 28.1 °C
Annual rainfall 830 mm 1,037 mm 1,432 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 30 mm 93 mm 141 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 190 research-grade observations of Keetia gueinzii that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 9 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.

  • Canthium charadrophilum (K.Krause) Bullock
  • Canthium gueinzii Sond.
  • Canthium pynaertii (De Wild.) C.M.Evrard
  • Canthium scabrosum Bullock
  • Keetia transvaalensis E.Phillips
  • Plectronia charadrophila K.Krause
  • Plectronia gueinzii (Sond.) Sim
  • Plectronia pynaertii De Wild.
  • Plectronia subcordatifolia De Wild.

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.