Stellarioides virens(Lindl.) Speta

WFO wfo-0000739156 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Stellarioides virens, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. a Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-29 / obs. 174088878
Stellarioides virens, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. b Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105273806
Stellarioides virens, photographed by Aaliyah Motala
fig. c Aaliyah Motala, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 109858223
Stellarioides virens, photographed by Peter Warren
fig. d Peter Warren, CC0 1.0 / obs. 59504223
Stellarioides virens, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. e Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165532215
Stellarioides virens, photographed by Robert Taylor
fig. f Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177804163
Stellarioides virens, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 16029418
Stellarioides virens, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 16033530

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Stellarioides virens is native: Angola, Botswana, Cape Provinces, DR Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Free State, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe AngolaBotswanaCape ProvincesDR CongoEritreaEswatiniEthiopiaFree StateKenyaKwaZulu-NatalLesothoMalawiMozambiqueNamibiaNorthern ProvincesRwandaSomaliaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaUgandaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Stellarioides virens, 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
Botswana BOT
Cape Provinces CPP
DR Congo ZAI
Eritrea ERI
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Free State OFS
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Lesotho LES
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Namibia NAM
Northern Provinces TVL
Rwanda RWA
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
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.

Flowering 50 in flower of 59 examined

Peak flowering in Dec. Each bar is the share of Stellarioides virens observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 50 of 59 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 48 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.

  • Albuca angustibracteata De Wild.
  • Albuca longebracteata Engl.
  • Albuca virens (Lindl.) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt
  • Albuca virens subsp. robusta (Stedje) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt
  • Albuca virens subsp. sordida (Baker) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt
  • Albuca virens subsp. virens
  • Ornithogalum aciphyllum Baker
  • Ornithogalum acuminatum Baker
  • Ornithogalum albanense Poelln.
  • Ornithogalum albovirens Baker
  • Ornithogalum benguellense Baker
  • Ornithogalum bosniacum Beck
  • Ornithogalum breviscapum F.M.Leight.
  • Ornithogalum cepifolium Baker
  • Ornithogalum chloranthum Baker
  • Ornithogalum ecklonii Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
  • Ornithogalum ecklonii Schltdl.
  • Ornithogalum galpinii Baker
  • Ornithogalum longivaginatum N.E.Br.
  • Ornithogalum otavense K.Krause
  • Ornithogalum pretoriense Baker
  • Ornithogalum saltmarshei Baker
  • Ornithogalum sordidum Baker
  • Ornithogalum subspicatum Baker

and 24 more.

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.