Leobordea divaricata(Eckl. & Zeyh.) Boatwr.

WFO wfo-1200009176 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY-SA

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.

Leobordea divaricata, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. a Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2017-04-26 / obs. 16129655
Leobordea divaricata, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. b Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 16129657
Leobordea divaricata, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. c Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 16129659
Leobordea divaricata, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. d Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 16129662
Leobordea divaricata, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. e Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 16129666

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Leobordea divaricata is native: Angola, Cape Provinces, Lesotho, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Zimbabwe AngolaCape ProvincesLesothoNamibiaNorthern ProvincesZimbabwe
Native distribution of Leobordea divaricata, 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
Lesotho LES
Namibia NAM
Northern Provinces TVL
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 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.

  • Crotalaria erisemoides Ficalho & Hiern
  • Leptidium calycinum (E.Mey.) C.Presl
  • Leptidium divaricatum C.Presl
  • Leptis divaricata Eckl. & Zeyh.
  • Lipozygis calycina E.Mey.
  • Lotononis calycina (E.Mey.) Benth.
  • Lotononis calycina var. acuta Dümmer
  • Lotononis calycina var. hirsutissima (Harv.) Dümmer
  • Lotononis divaricata Harv.
  • Lotononis eriosemoides (Ficalho & Hiern) Torre
  • Lotononis orthorrhiza Conrath
  • Lotononis tenella var. calycina (E.Mey.) Harv.
  • Lotononis tenella var. hirsutissima Harv.
  • Polylobium calycinum (E.Mey.) D.Dietr.

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.