Schrebera alata(Hochst.) Welw.

WFO wfo-0000818537 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Schrebera alata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-06-11 / obs. 141008593
Schrebera alata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 140485355
Schrebera alata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 140485262
Schrebera alata, photographed by Andrew Deacon
fig. d Andrew Deacon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 103714177
Schrebera alata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 25140922
Schrebera alata, photographed by Wynand Uys
fig. f Wynand Uys, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110679937
Schrebera alata, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. g Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174230529
Schrebera alata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 140746226

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Schrebera alata is native: Angola, Burundi, DR Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe AngolaBurundiDR CongoEritreaEswatiniEthiopiaKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMalawiMozambiqueNorthern ProvincesRwandaTanzaniaUgandaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Schrebera alata, 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
Burundi BUR
DR Congo ZAI
Eritrea ERI
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Northern Provinces TVL
Rwanda RWA
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Zambia ZAM
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 20 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.

  • Nathusia alata Hochst.
  • Nathusia holstii Engl. & Gilg
  • Nathusia obliquifoliolata (Gilg) Chiov.
  • Schrebera alata var. tomentella Welw.
  • Schrebera argyrotricha Gilg
  • Schrebera excelsa Lingelsh.
  • Schrebera excelsa var. somnifera Lingelsh.
  • Schrebera gilgiana Lingelsh.
  • Schrebera goetzeana Gilg
  • Schrebera greenwayi Turrill
  • Schrebera holstii (Engl. & Gilg) Gilg
  • Schrebera latialata Gilg
  • Schrebera mazoensis S.Moore
  • Schrebera merkeri Lingelsh.
  • Schrebera nyassae Lingelsh.
  • Schrebera obliquifoliolata Gilg
  • Schrebera saundersiae Harv.
  • Schrebera saundersiae var. latialata (Gilg) Gilg & G.Schellenb.
  • Schrebera tomentella (Welw.) Gilg
  • Schrebera welwitschii Gilg

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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