Linzia glabraSteetz

WFO wfo-0000086483 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.

Linzia glabra, photographed by Robert Taylor
fig. a Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 192112852
Linzia glabra, photographed by Robert Taylor
fig. b Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192112925
Linzia glabra, photographed by Robert Taylor
fig. c Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192112989
Linzia glabra, photographed by Robert Taylor
fig. d Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192113087

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Linzia glabra is native: Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, DR Congo, Eswatini, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe AngolaBotswanaCameroonDR CongoEswatiniKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMadagascarMalawiMozambiqueNamibiaNorthern ProvincesTanzaniaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Linzia glabra, 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
Botswana BOT
Cameroon CMN
DR Congo ZAI
Eswatini SWZ
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Madagascar MDG
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Namibia NAM
Northern Provinces TVL
Tanzania TAN
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 60 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 6.5 °C 10.2 °C 13.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.7 °C 31.6 °C 34.3 °C
Annual rainfall 419 mm 676 mm 1,204 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 1 mm 3 mm 63 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 60 research-grade observations of Linzia glabra 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 11 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.

  • Cacalia obconica (Oliv. & Hiern) Kuntze
  • Vernonia glabra (Steetz) Oliv. & Hiern
  • Vernonia glabra var. glabra
  • Vernonia glabra var. laxa (Steetz) Brenan
  • Vernonia glabra var. ondongensis (Klatt) Merxm.
  • Vernonia hindei S.Moore
  • Vernonia obconica Oliv. & Hiern
  • Vernonia ondongensis Klatt
  • Vernonia piovani Chiov.
  • Vernonia pogosperma Klatt
  • Vernonia roseopapposa Gilli

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.