Microloma armatum(Thunb.) Schltr. ex E.Gilg & Benedict

WFO wfo-0000368792 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.

Microloma armatum, photographed by douglaseustonbrown
fig. a douglaseustonbrown, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-02-01 / obs. 120402078
Microloma armatum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 19326287
Microloma armatum, photographed by douglaseustonbrown
fig. c douglaseustonbrown, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 120402070
Microloma armatum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 19643520
Microloma armatum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 19643529
Microloma armatum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 19328124
Microloma armatum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 16009255
Microloma armatum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 19426889

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Microloma armatum is native: Cape Provinces, Free State, Namibia Cape ProvincesFree StateNamibia
Native distribution of Microloma armatum, 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
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA
Free State OFS
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.

Also published as 18 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.

  • Astephanus dregei (E.Mey.) D.Dietr.
  • Astephanus massonii Schult.
  • Haemax dregei E.Mey.
  • Haemax massonii (Schult.) E.Mey.
  • Microloma burchellii N.E.Br.
  • Microloma campanulatum Wanntorp
  • Microloma dinteri Schltr.
  • Microloma dregei (E.Mey.) Wanntorp
  • Microloma hystricoides Wanntorp
  • Microloma kunjasense Range
  • Microloma massonii (Schult.) Schltr.
  • Microloma spinosum N.E.Br.
  • Microloma spinosum subsp. dinteri (Schltr.) Wanntorp
  • Microloma spinosum subsp. velutinum Wanntorp
  • Microloma viridiflorum N.E.Br.
  • Stapelia massonii Haw.
  • Stissera massonii (Haw.) Kuntze
  • Stisseria massonii (Haw.) Kuntze

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.