Loudetia flavida(Stapf) C.E.Hubb.

WFO wfo-0000878654 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, 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.

Loudetia flavida, photographed by Jimmy Whatmore
fig. a Jimmy Whatmore, CC0 1.0 / 2015-04-29 / obs. 39687908
Loudetia flavida, photographed by Manuel R Popp
fig. b Manuel R Popp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172051056
Loudetia flavida, photographed by Manuel R Popp
fig. c Manuel R Popp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172051089
Loudetia flavida, photographed by Jimmy Whatmore
fig. d Jimmy Whatmore, CC0 1.0 / obs. 39687917
Loudetia flavida, photographed by Manuel R Popp
fig. e Manuel R Popp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172051111
Loudetia flavida, photographed by Manuel R Popp
fig. f Manuel R Popp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172051144
Loudetia flavida, photographed by Manuel R Popp
fig. g Manuel R Popp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172051008
Loudetia flavida, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 64265183

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 3720822
Filed as
Loudetia flavida (Stapf) C.E.Hubb.
Det. by
Soreng, Robert J., Research Associate (BOT), Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of Natural History (UNITED STATES)
Collected
P. M. Peterson, R. J. Soreng, K. Romaschenko & Y. Abeid 2012-05-19
Origin
TZ
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Loudetia flavida is native: Botswana, Burkina, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Oman BotswanaBurkinaCameroonChadCongoEthiopiaGabonGhanaKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMalawiMozambiqueNigeriaNorthern ProvincesSudan-South SudanTanzaniaTogoUgandaZambiaZimbabweOman
Native distribution of Loudetia flavida, 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
Botswana BOT AFRICA
Burkina BKN
Cameroon CMN
Chad CHA
Congo CON
Ethiopia ETH
Gabon GAB
Ghana GHA
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Nigeria NGA
Northern Provinces TVL
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Togo TOG
Uganda UGA
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM
Oman OMA ASIA-TEMPERATE

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 7 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.

  • Loudetia acuminata (Stapf) C.E.Hubb.
  • Loudetia pennata (Chiov.) C.E.Hubb.
  • Trichopteryx acuminata Stapf
  • Trichopteryx cuspidata Gilli
  • Trichopteryx flavida Stapf
  • Trichopteryx glabra Hack.
  • Trichopteryx pennata Chiov.

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.