Protea longifoliaAndrews

long-leaf protealong-leaf sugarbush

WFO wfo-0001106785 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Protea longifolia, photographed by Jared Zachary Herman
fig. a Jared Zachary Herman, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-02 / obs. 194286962
Protea longifolia, photographed by Jared Zachary Herman
fig. b Jared Zachary Herman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194288846
Protea longifolia, photographed by linkie
fig. c linkie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194780842
Protea longifolia, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 181343245
Protea longifolia, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 166176913
Protea longifolia, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 166154325
Protea longifolia, photographed by linkie
fig. g linkie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166941989
Protea longifolia, photographed by linkie
fig. h linkie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166011421

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Protea longifolia is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Protea longifolia, 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 12 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.

  • Erodendrum ligulifolium Knight
  • Erodendrum longifolium Knight
  • Erodendrum longipenne Knight
  • Erodendrum umbonale Knight
  • Protea ignota E.Phillips
  • Protea ligulaefolia Sweet
  • Protea ligulifolia Sweet
  • Protea minor Compton
  • Protea nigra Regel
  • Protea umbonalis Sweet
  • Protea vidua [Ker-Gawl.]
  • Scolymocephalus longifolius 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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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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