Schistostephium crataegifolium(DC.) Fenzl ex Harv.

WFO wfo-0000127048 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Schistostephium crataegifolium, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-06-11 / obs. 140030797
Schistostephium crataegifolium, photographed by James Deacon
fig. b James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 115504322
Schistostephium crataegifolium, photographed by James Deacon
fig. c James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 115284037
Schistostephium crataegifolium, photographed by Antoinette Eyssell Knox
fig. d Antoinette Eyssell Knox, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 112638667
Schistostephium crataegifolium, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 41991620
Schistostephium crataegifolium, photographed by James Deacon
fig. f James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15302807
Schistostephium crataegifolium, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 183154470
Schistostephium crataegifolium, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 41952816

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Schistostephium crataegifolium is native: Angola, Cape Provinces, Eswatini, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Zambia AngolaCape ProvincesEswatiniFree StateKwaZulu-NatalLesothoMozambiqueNorthern ProvincesZambia
Native distribution of Schistostephium crataegifolium, 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
Cape Provinces CPP
Eswatini SWZ
Free State OFS
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Lesotho LES
Mozambique MOZ
Northern Provinces TVL
Zambia ZAM

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 4 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.

  • Schistostephium microcephalum Baker
  • Schistostephium villosum Hutch.
  • Tanacetum consanguineum DC.
  • Tanacetum crataegifolium DC.

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.

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