Raphionacme velutinaSchltr.

WFO wfo-0000402277 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.

Raphionacme velutina, photographed by Hildegard Klein
fig. a Hildegard Klein, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-10-13 / obs. 100246430
Raphionacme velutina, photographed by Antoinette Eyssell Knox
fig. b Antoinette Eyssell Knox, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 55303307
Raphionacme velutina, photographed by Andrew Hankey
fig. c Andrew Hankey, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 119289433
Raphionacme velutina, photographed by Antoinette Eyssell Knox
fig. d Antoinette Eyssell Knox, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15631929
Raphionacme velutina, photographed by Hildegard Klein
fig. e Hildegard Klein, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100246413
Raphionacme velutina, photographed by Antoinette Eyssell Knox
fig. f Antoinette Eyssell Knox, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 55303300
Raphionacme velutina, photographed by Andrew Hankey
fig. g Andrew Hankey, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 119289339
Raphionacme velutina, photographed by Antoinette Eyssell Knox
fig. h Antoinette Eyssell Knox, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15631931

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Raphionacme velutina is native: Angola, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Free State, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Zambia, Zimbabwe AngolaBotswanaCape ProvincesCaprivi StripFree StateNamibiaNorthern ProvincesZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Raphionacme velutina, 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
Botswana BOT
Cape Provinces CPP
Caprivi Strip CPV
Free State OFS
Namibia NAM
Northern Provinces TVL
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM

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 3 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.

  • Brachystelma viridiflorum Turrill
  • Raphionacme burkei N.E.Br.
  • Raphionacme dinteri Schltr. ex Schinz

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.