Schotia brachypetalaSond.

WFO wfo-0000170688 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Schotia brachypetala, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. a Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-01 / obs. 198062186
Schotia brachypetala, photographed by Margaret Burger
fig. b Margaret Burger, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 193754579
Schotia brachypetala, photographed by Margaret Burger
fig. c Margaret Burger, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 166017677
Schotia brachypetala, photographed by Rosemary Harrison
fig. d Rosemary Harrison, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 165656552
Schotia brachypetala, photographed by Margaret Burger
fig. e Margaret Burger, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 152941021
Schotia brachypetala, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. f Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147439969
Schotia brachypetala, photographed by Margaret Burger
fig. g Margaret Burger, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 140150742
Schotia brachypetala, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 139604478

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Schotia brachypetala is native: Botswana, Cape Provinces, Eswatini, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Zimbabwe BotswanaCape ProvincesEswatiniKwaZulu-NatalMozambiqueNorthern ProvincesZimbabwe
Native distribution of Schotia brachypetala, 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
Botswana BOT AFRICA
Cape Provinces CPP
Eswatini SWZ
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Mozambique MOZ
Northern Provinces TVL
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.

Flowering 151 in flower of 313 examined

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Schotia brachypetala observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 151 of 313 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

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.

  • Guillandinodes brachypetalum (Sond.) Kuntze
  • Schotia brachypetala var. pubescens Burtt Davy
  • Schotia rogersii Burtt Davy
  • Schotia semireducta Merxm.

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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