Sebaea leiostylaGilg

WFO wfo-0001063369 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 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.

Sebaea leiostyla, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. a Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-02-20 / obs. 113546109
Sebaea leiostyla, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. b Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113546115
Sebaea leiostyla, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. c Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113546117
Sebaea leiostyla, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. d Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113546121
Sebaea leiostyla, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. e Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113546122
Sebaea leiostyla, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. f Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113546094

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Sebaea leiostyla is native: Cape Provinces, DR Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Free State, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe Cape ProvincesDR CongoEswatiniEthiopiaFree StateKenyaKwaZulu-NatalLesothoMalawiMozambiqueNorthern ProvincesRwandaTanzaniaUgandaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Sebaea leiostyla, 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
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA
DR Congo ZAI
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Free State OFS
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Lesotho LES
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Northern Provinces TVL
Rwanda RWA
Tanzania TAN
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 3 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.

  • Sebaea bequaertii De Wild.
  • Sebaea polyantha Gilg
  • Sebaea transvaalensis Schinz

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.