Staavia capitella(Thunb.) Sond.

WFO wfo-0000439150 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / 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.

Staavia capitella, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2020-10-25 / obs. 102201403
Staavia capitella, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 102201646
Staavia capitella, photographed by Klaus Wehrlin
fig. c Klaus Wehrlin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 99510149
Staavia capitella, photographed by Klaus Wehrlin
fig. d Klaus Wehrlin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 15710431
Staavia capitella, photographed by Klaus Wehrlin
fig. e Klaus Wehrlin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 85882616
Staavia capitella, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 102201624
Staavia capitella, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 102201381
Staavia capitella, photographed by Klaus Wehrlin
fig. h Klaus Wehrlin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 15710434

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Staavia capitella is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Staavia capitella, 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

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 11 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.

  • Brunia capitata Desf.
  • Brunia capitella Thunb.
  • Brunia ciliata L.
  • Staavia adenandrifolia Eckl. & Zeyh.
  • Staavia ciliata Brongn.
  • Staavia ciliata Eckl. & Zeyh.
  • Staavia globosa (Thunb.) Sond.
  • Staavia lateriflora Colozza
  • Staavia nuda Eckl. & Zeyh.
  • Staavia rupestris Eckl. & Zeyh.
  • Trichocephalus elongatus Eckl. & Zeyh.

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.