Sophora tetrapteraJ.S.Muell.

WFO wfo-0001055068 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sophora tetraptera, photographed by Lisa Bennett
fig. a Lisa Bennett, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-07 / obs. 167802247
Sophora tetraptera, photographed by strewick
fig. b strewick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166749642
Sophora tetraptera, photographed by Mark Roper
fig. c Mark Roper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 103171468
Sophora tetraptera, photographed by Courtney Tregurtha-Nairn
fig. d Courtney Tregurtha-Nairn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59344935
Sophora tetraptera, photographed by Colin Meurk
fig. e Colin Meurk, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 51109324
Sophora tetraptera, photographed by Leon Perrie
fig. f Leon Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 21310812
Sophora tetraptera, photographed by Lisa Bennett
fig. g Lisa Bennett, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 2818565
Sophora tetraptera, photographed by Colin Meurk
fig. h Colin Meurk, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 1386965

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Sophora tetraptera is native: New Zealand North New Zealand North
Native distribution of Sophora tetraptera, 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
New Zealand North NZN AUSTRALASIA

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 10 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.

  • Edwardsia grandiflora Salisb.
  • Edwardsia intermedia Tausch
  • Edwardsia macrophylla Wender.
  • Edwardsia minima Lodd. ex W.H.Baxter
  • Edwardsia myriophylla Wender.
  • Edwardsia tetraptera (J.S.Muell.) W.R.B.Oliv.
  • Podalyria tetraptera Steud.
  • Sophora grandiflora (Salisb.) Skottsb.
  • Sophora grandiflora J.R.Duncan & V.C.Davies
  • Sophora tetraptera unranked grandiflora J.R.Duncan & V.C.Davies

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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