Lopholaena coriifolia(Sond.) E.Phillips & C.A.Sm.

WFO wfo-0000027172 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Lopholaena coriifolia, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. a Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-24 / obs. 165532344
Lopholaena coriifolia, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. b Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162934445
Lopholaena coriifolia, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. c Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159804919
Lopholaena coriifolia, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. d Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159341400
Lopholaena coriifolia, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. e Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153910832
Lopholaena coriifolia, photographed by James Deacon
fig. f James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 116768590
Lopholaena coriifolia, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. g Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 103615400
Lopholaena coriifolia, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. h Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100841954

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Lopholaena coriifolia is native: Angola, Eswatini, Northern Provinces, Zimbabwe AngolaEswatiniNorthern ProvincesZimbabwe
Native distribution of Lopholaena coriifolia, 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
Eswatini SWZ
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 3 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.

  • Lopholaena bainesii (Oliv. & Hiern) S.Moore
  • Lopholaena randii S.Moore
  • Othonna coriifolia Sond.

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.