Sclerocarpus africanusJacq.

African bonebract

WFO wfo-0000085023 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Sclerocarpus africanus, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. a Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2013-09-20 / obs. 153519045
Sclerocarpus africanus, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 162876339
Sclerocarpus africanus, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 153519037
Sclerocarpus africanus, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 162876342
Sclerocarpus africanus, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 153519042
Sclerocarpus africanus, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. f Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 162876344
Sclerocarpus africanus, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. g Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 153519048
Sclerocarpus africanus, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. h Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 153519050

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Native range 32 botanical countries

Regions where Sclerocarpus africanus is native: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Congo, DR Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Oman, Yemen, India, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya AngolaBeninBotswanaBurkinaCameroonChadCongoDR CongoEritreaEthiopiaGhanaGuinea-BissauIvory CoastLiberiaMaliMauritaniaMozambiqueNamibiaNigeriaSenegalSomaliaSudan-South SudanTogoZambiaZimbabweOmanYemenIndiaNepalPakistanWest Himalaya Cape Verde
Native distribution of Sclerocarpus africanus, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Angola ANG AFRICA
Benin BEN
Botswana BOT
Burkina BKN
Cameroon CMN
Cape Verde CVI
Chad CHA
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Eritrea ERI
Ethiopia ETH
Ghana GHA
Guinea-Bissau GNB
Ivory Coast IVO
Liberia LBR
Mali MLI
Mauritania MTN
Mozambique MOZ
Namibia NAM
Nigeria NGA
Senegal SEN
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Togo TOG
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM
India IND ASIA-TROPICAL
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
West Himalaya WHM
Oman OMA ASIA-TEMPERATE
Yemen YEM

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.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.