Phragmanthera capitata(Spreng.) Balle

WFO wfo-0000468713 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 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.

Phragmanthera capitata, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. a Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / 2021-12-07 / obs. 173571804
Phragmanthera capitata, photographed by Fábio Olmos
fig. b Fábio Olmos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 71465085
Phragmanthera capitata, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. c Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173571816

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Phragmanthera capitata is native: Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Togo AngolaBeninCameroonCentral African RepublicCongoDR CongoEquatorial GuineaGabonGuineaGulf of Guinea Is.Ivory CoastLiberiaNigeriaRwandaTogo
Native distribution of Phragmanthera capitata, 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
Angola ANG AFRICA
Benin BEN
Cameroon CMN
Central African Republic CAF
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Equatorial Guinea EQG
Gabon GAB
Guinea GUI
Gulf of Guinea Is. GGI
Ivory Coast IVO
Liberia LBR
Nigeria NGA
Rwanda RWA
Togo TOG

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 31 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.

  • Cinchona capitata (Spreng.) Brign.
  • Exostema capitatum Spreng.
  • Loranthus angustitepalus Engl.
  • Loranthus capitatus Engl.
  • Loranthus capitatus var. latifolius Engl. ex Th.Dur. & De Wild.
  • Loranthus celtidifolius Willd. ex Schult.f.
  • Loranthus gossweileri Engl. & Krause
  • Loranthus gossweileri Engl. & K.Krause
  • Loranthus hexasepalus Engl.
  • Loranthus incanus Schumach.
  • Loranthus incanus var. albus Sprague
  • Loranthus incanus var. gossweileri (Engl. & K.Krause) Sprague
  • Loranthus incanus var. sessilis Sprague
  • Loranthus lapathifolius Engl. & K.Krause
  • Loranthus leptolobus Benth.
  • Loranthus luteoflorus De Wild.
  • Loranthus pallidifolius Engl. & K.Krause
  • Loranthus sopauxii Engl.
  • Loranthus soyauxii Engl.
  • Loranthus thollonii Tiegh. ex Pellegr.
  • Phragmanthera incana (Schumach.) Balle
  • Phragmanthera lapathifolia (Engl. & K.Krause) Balle
  • Scurrula thonningii G.Don
  • Tapinanthus capitatus (Spreng.) Danser

and 7 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.

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