Senecio quinquelobus(Thunb.) DC.

WFO wfo-0000074159 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 3 separate observations

Senecio quinquelobus, photographed by Jeremy Gilmore
fig. a Jeremy Gilmore, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-01-02 / obs. 59286910
Senecio quinquelobus, photographed by douglaseustonbrown
fig. b douglaseustonbrown, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 45361151
Senecio quinquelobus, photographed by Caroline Voget
fig. c Caroline Voget, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 15100963

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Senecio quinquelobus is native: Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Mozambique, Northern Provinces Cape ProvincesKwaZulu-NatalMadagascarMozambiqueNorthern Provinces
Native distribution of Senecio quinquelobus, 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
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Madagascar MDG
Mozambique MOZ
Northern Provinces TVL

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 1 synonym

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.

  • Cacalia quinqueloba Thunb.

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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