Pentatropis capensis(L.f.) Bullock

WFO wfo-0001100969 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Pentatropis capensis, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. a Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2017-08-27 / obs. 50365479
Pentatropis capensis, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. b Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50365485
Pentatropis capensis, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. c Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50365494
Pentatropis capensis, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50365565
Pentatropis capensis, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. e Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50365472
Pentatropis capensis, photographed by S.MORE
fig. f S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 51395882
Pentatropis capensis, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. g Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50365488

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Pentatropis capensis is native: Andaman Is., Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam BangladeshCambodiaIndiaMyanmarPakistanSri LankaThailandVietnam Andaman Is.
Native distribution of Pentatropis capensis, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
Cambodia CBD
India IND
Myanmar MYA
Pakistan PAK
Sri Lanka SRL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE

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 10 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.

  • Asclepias microphylla Roth ex Schult.
  • Colostephanus capensis (L.f.) Harv.
  • Cosmostigma cordatum (Poir.) M.R.Almeida
  • Cynanchum acuminatum Thunb.
  • Cynanchum capense L.f.
  • Cynoctonum capense (L.f.) E.Mey.
  • Hemidesmus cordatus (Poir.) Schult.
  • Pentatropis microphylla (Roth ex Schult.) Wight & Arn.
  • Periploca cordata Poir.
  • Vincetoxicum capense (L.f.) 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.