Oscularia lunata(Willd.) H.E.K.Hartmann

WFO wfo-0000385203 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 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.

Oscularia lunata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2015-05-01 / obs. 15692432
Oscularia lunata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15692434
Oscularia lunata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15692436

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Oscularia lunata is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Oscularia lunata, 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

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 36 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.

  • Lampranthus albus (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
  • Lampranthus cedarbergensis (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
  • Lampranthus compressus L.Bolus
  • Lampranthus comptonii (L.Bolus) N.E.Br.
  • Lampranthus comptonii f. roseus (L.Bolus) G.D.Rowley
  • Lampranthus comptonii var. comptonii
  • Lampranthus comptonii var. roseus (L.Bolus) L.Bolus ex H.Jacobsen
  • Lampranthus copiosus (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
  • Lampranthus ebracteatus L.Bolus
  • Lampranthus excedens (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
  • Lampranthus lunatus (Willd.) N.E.Br.
  • Lampranthus ornatus L.Bolus
  • Lampranthus primivernus (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
  • Lampranthus superans (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
  • Lampranthus thermarum (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
  • Mesembryanthemum album L.Bolus
  • Mesembryanthemum cedarbergense L.Bolus
  • Mesembryanthemum comptonii L.Bolus
  • Mesembryanthemum comptonii var. roseum L.Bolus
  • Mesembryanthemum copiosum L.Bolus
  • Mesembryanthemum excedens L.Bolus
  • Mesembryanthemum lunatum Willd.
  • Mesembryanthemum pageanum L.Bolus
  • Mesembryanthemum primivernum L.Bolus

and 12 more.

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.