Lopholaena cneorifolia

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession: K000306984
Filed as: Lopholaena cneorifolia (DC.) S.Moore
Det. by: Hind, D.J.N.
Collected: Dinter 1922-06-05
Origin: NA
The sheet: View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Native distribution of Lopholaena cneorifolia, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Cape Provinces	CPP	AFRICA
Namibia	NAM

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 32 in flower of 84 examined

22%

78%

55%

14%

20%

Proportion of examined Lopholaena cneorifolia in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	1	3	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	0	0	too few examined
Apr	1	4	too few examined
May	0	4	too few examined
Jun	0	5	0%	0% to 43%
Jul	2	9	22%	6% to 55%
Aug	14	18	78%	55% to 91%
Sep	11	20	55%	34% to 74%
Oct	2	14	14%	4% to 40%
Nov	1	5	20%	4% to 62%
Dec	0	2	too few examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Lopholaena cneorifolia 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. 32 of 84 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 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 6 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.

Curio avasimontanus (Dinter) P.V.Heath
Doria cneorifolia DC.
Hertia cneorifolia Kuntze
Othonna avasimontana Dinter
Othonna cneorifolia (DC.) Sch.Bip.
Senecio avasimontanus Dinter

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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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