Pogonospermum depauperatum(T.Anderson) I.Darbysh. & Kiel

WFO wfo-1000030850 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC0

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.

Pogonospermum depauperatum, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. a Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / 2021-12-06 / obs. 173376428
Pogonospermum depauperatum, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. b Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173376439
Pogonospermum depauperatum, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. c Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173376258

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Pogonospermum depauperatum is native: Angola, Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan-South Sudan, Togo AngolaBeninBurkinaCameroonCentral African RepublicGhanaGuineaGuinea-BissauIvory CoastMaliNigeriaSenegalSierra LeoneSudan-South SudanTogo
Native distribution of Pogonospermum depauperatum, 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
Burkina BKN
Cameroon CMN
Central African Republic CAF
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Guinea-Bissau GNB
Ivory Coast IVO
Mali MLI
Nigeria NGA
Senegal SEN
Sierra Leone SIE
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
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 8 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.

  • Ecbolium barteri (T.Anderson) Kuntze
  • Ecbolium depauperatum (T.Anderson) Kuntze
  • Justicia barteri T.Anderson
  • Justicia depauperata T.Anderson
  • Justicia sexsulcata Lindau
  • Monechma depauperatum (T.Anderson) C.B.Clarke
  • Monechma marginatum (Lindau) C.B.Clarke
  • Nicoteba marginata Lindau

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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