Rothmannia urcelliformis(Hiern) Bullock ex Robyns

WFO wfo-0000298278 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

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.

Rothmannia urcelliformis, photographed by Sunday Berlioz KAKPO
fig. a Sunday Berlioz KAKPO, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-04-09 / obs. 122381951
Rothmannia urcelliformis, photographed by Sunday Berlioz KAKPO
fig. b Sunday Berlioz KAKPO, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119787317
Rothmannia urcelliformis, photographed by Sunday Berlioz KAKPO
fig. c Sunday Berlioz KAKPO, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119787331

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Native range 24 botanical countries

Regions where Rothmannia urcelliformis is native: Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe AngolaBeninBurundiCameroonCentral African RepublicCongoDR CongoEthiopiaGabonGhanaGuineaGulf of Guinea Is.Ivory CoastKenyaLiberiaMalawiMozambiqueNigeriaSierra LeoneSudan-South SudanTanzaniaTogoUgandaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Rothmannia urcelliformis, 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
Burundi BUR
Cameroon CMN
Central African Republic CAF
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Ethiopia ETH
Gabon GAB
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Gulf of Guinea Is. GGI
Ivory Coast IVO
Kenya KEN
Liberia LBR
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Nigeria NGA
Sierra Leone SIE
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Togo TOG
Uganda UGA
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 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.

  • Gardenia riparia K.Schum.
  • Gardenia tigrina Welw. ex Hiern
  • Gardenia urcelliformis Hiern
  • Randia chevalieri Aubrév.
  • Randia spathicalyx De Wild.
  • Randia stenophylla K.Krause
  • Randia urcelliformis (Hiern) Schweinf. ex Hiern
  • Randia urcelliformis (Schweinf. ex Hiern) Eggeling
  • Randia violascens Hiern
  • Rothmannia arcuata Bremek.
  • Rothmannia riparia (K.Schum.) Fagerl.
  • Rothmannia spathicalyx (De Wild.) Fagerl.

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.