Roella incurvaBanks ex A.DC.

Blue RoellaWhite-eyed Roella

WFO wfo-0000818127 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Roella incurva, photographed by Jeremy Gilmore
fig. a Jeremy Gilmore, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-11 / obs. 172145847
Roella incurva, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 58764160
Roella incurva, photographed by linkie
fig. c linkie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12638973
Roella incurva, photographed by magriet b
fig. d magriet b, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 12274593
Roella incurva, photographed by Nolan Exe
fig. e Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 13237896
Roella incurva, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15391150
Roella incurva, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15155200
Roella incurva, photographed by linkie
fig. h linkie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12638797

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Roella incurva is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Roella incurva, 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 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.

  • Roella ciliata var. incurva (Banks ex A.DC.) Sond.
  • Roella incurva var. incurva
  • Roella rhodantha Adamson

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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