Sopubia simplex(Hochst.) Hochst.

WFO wfo-0000495185 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Sopubia simplex, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2019-03-18 / obs. 34393803
Sopubia simplex, photographed by Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan
fig. b Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 109487238
Sopubia simplex, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 34493534
Sopubia simplex, photographed by Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan
fig. d Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 109487252
Sopubia simplex, photographed by Andrew Hankey
fig. e Andrew Hankey, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 12847898
Sopubia simplex, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 34596622
Sopubia simplex, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 34393771
Sopubia simplex, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 34493542

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Native range 28 botanical countries

Regions where Sopubia simplex is native: Angola, Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Sierra Leone, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe AngolaBeninBurkinaCameroonCape ProvincesCentral African RepublicCongoDR CongoEswatiniEthiopiaGabonGhanaGuineaIvory CoastKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMalawiMaliMozambiqueNigeriaNorthern ProvincesSierra LeoneSudan-South SudanTanzaniaTogoUgandaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Sopubia simplex, 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
Benin BEN
Burkina BKN
Cameroon CMN
Cape Provinces CPP
Central African Republic CAF
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Gabon GAB
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Ivory Coast IVO
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Malawi MLW
Mali MLI
Mozambique MOZ
Nigeria NGA
Northern Provinces TVL
Sierra Leone SIE
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Togo TOG
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 4 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.

  • Gerardia dregeana Hochst.
  • Gerdaria dregeana C.Presl
  • Raphidophyllum simplex Hochst.
  • Sopubia dregeana Benth.

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.