Rotheca microphylla(Blume) Callm. & Phillipson

WFO wfo-0001338020 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.

Rotheca microphylla, photographed by Haneesh K M
fig. a Haneesh K M, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 203432451
Rotheca microphylla, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. b Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 152009396
Rotheca microphylla, photographed by renjus box
fig. c renjus box, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 83361853
Rotheca microphylla, photographed by bat (Maria Vorontsova)
fig. d bat (Maria Vorontsova), CC0 1.0 / obs. 108021997
Rotheca microphylla, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. e Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 152009394
Rotheca microphylla, photographed by renjus box
fig. f renjus box, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 83361866
Rotheca microphylla, photographed by Greg III Espera
fig. g Greg III Espera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 22400338
Rotheca microphylla, photographed by R K
fig. h R K, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81516582

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Rotheca microphylla is native: Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe KenyaMadagascarMozambiqueSomaliaTanzaniaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Rotheca microphylla, 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
Kenya KEN AFRICA
Madagascar MDG
Mozambique MOZ
Somalia SOM
Tanzania TAN
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 13 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.

  • Adelosa microphylla Blume
  • Clerodendrum bernieri Briq.
  • Clerodendrum dalei Moldenke
  • Clerodendrum incisum Klotzsch
  • Clerodendrum incisum var. afzelii Moldenke
  • Clerodendrum incisum var. longepedunculatum B.Thomas
  • Clerodendrum incisum var. macrosiphon (Hook.f.) Baker
  • Clerodendrum incisum var. parvifolium Moldenke
  • Clerodendrum incisum var. typicum Bakh.
  • Clerodendrum incisum var. vinosum Chiov.
  • Clerodendrum lindemuthianum Vatke
  • Clerodendrum macrosiphon Hook.f.
  • Rotheca incisa (Klotzsch) Steane & Mabb.

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.