Lasiosiphon kraussianus(Meisn.) Meisn.

WFO wfo-0000445417 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Lasiosiphon kraussianus, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. a Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-29 / obs. 173993049
Lasiosiphon kraussianus, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. b Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172508585
Lasiosiphon kraussianus, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. c Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172556877
Lasiosiphon kraussianus, photographed by Presha Soogrim
fig. d Presha Soogrim, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171788284
Lasiosiphon kraussianus, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. e Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109726024
Lasiosiphon kraussianus, photographed by James Deacon
fig. f James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 103978720
Lasiosiphon kraussianus, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. g Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 97508261
Lasiosiphon kraussianus, photographed by Antoinette Eyssell Knox
fig. h Antoinette Eyssell Knox, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 109527270

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Native range 31 botanical countries

Regions where Lasiosiphon kraussianus is native: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Republic, Chad, DR Congo, Eswatini, Free State, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe AngolaBeninBotswanaBurkinaBurundiCameroonCape ProvincesCentral African RepublicChadDR CongoEswatiniFree StateGhanaGuineaGuinea-BissauKenyaKwaZulu-NatalLesothoMalawiMaliMozambiqueNamibiaNigeriaNorthern ProvincesRwandaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaTogoUgandaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Lasiosiphon kraussianus, 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
Benin BEN
Botswana BOT
Burkina BKN
Burundi BUR
Cameroon CMN
Cape Provinces CPP
Central African Republic CAF
Chad CHA
DR Congo ZAI
Eswatini SWZ
Free State OFS
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Guinea-Bissau GNB
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Lesotho LES
Malawi MLW
Mali MLI
Mozambique MOZ
Namibia NAM
Nigeria NGA
Northern Provinces TVL
Rwanda RWA
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Togo TOG
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.

Flowering 38 in flower of 41 examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Lasiosiphon kraussianus observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 38 of 41 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 29 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.

  • Gnidia djurica Gilg
  • Gnidia hoepfneriana Gilg
  • Gnidia kerstingii (H.Pearson) Gilg ex Engl.
  • Gnidia kraussiana Meisn.
  • Gnidia kraussiana var. glabrata Meisn.
  • Gnidia kraussiana var. kraussiana
  • Gnidia kraussiana var. pubescens Meisn.
  • Gnidia passargei Gilg
  • Gnidia rorida (S.Moore) Eyles
  • Gnidia usinjensis Gilg
  • Lasiosiphon affinis Kotschy & Peyr.
  • Lasiosiphon djuricus Gilg
  • Lasiosiphon guineensis A.Chev.
  • Lasiosiphon hoepfnerianus (Gilg) H.Pearson
  • Lasiosiphon hoepfnerianus Vatke ex Gilg
  • Lasiosiphon kerstingii H.Pearson
  • Lasiosiphon kraussianus var. angustifolius Meisn.
  • Lasiosiphon kraussianus var. glabratus (Meisn.) Meisn.
  • Lasiosiphon kraussianus var. pubescens (Meisn.) Meisn.
  • Lasiosiphon kraussianus var. villosus Burtt Davy
  • Lasiosiphon kraussii Engl.
  • Lasiosiphon kraussii Meisn.
  • Lasiosiphon kraussii var. angustifolius Meisn.
  • Lasiosiphon kraussii var. glabratus (Meisn.) Meisn.

and 5 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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