Othonna heterophyllaL.f.

WFO wfo-0000112077 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Othonna heterophylla, photographed by Jeremy Gilmore
fig. a Jeremy Gilmore, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-11 / obs. 156646169
Othonna heterophylla, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 104745777
Othonna heterophylla, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 88418244
Othonna heterophylla, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 80226570
Othonna heterophylla, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 80146907
Othonna heterophylla, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 80225491
Othonna heterophylla, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 79914341
Othonna heterophylla, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 80000604

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Othonna heterophylla is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Othonna heterophylla, 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 2 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.

  • Othonna brachypoda DC.
  • Othonna tuberosa DC.

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.

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