Stephanotis macrantha(Klotzsch) S.Reuss, Liede & Meve

WFO wfo-1000031047 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Stephanotis macrantha, photographed by Robert Taylor
fig. a Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-12-09 / obs. 107053667
Stephanotis macrantha, photographed by Seth Musker
fig. b Seth Musker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29828827
Stephanotis macrantha, photographed by Robert Taylor
fig. c Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107053696
Stephanotis macrantha, photographed by Robert Taylor
fig. d Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107053695
Stephanotis macrantha, photographed by Robert Taylor
fig. e Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107053659
Stephanotis macrantha, photographed by Seth Musker
fig. f Seth Musker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29828818

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Stephanotis macrantha is native: Angola, Botswana, Caprivi Strip, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe AngolaBotswanaCaprivi StripKenyaMalawiMozambiqueNamibiaTanzaniaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Stephanotis macrantha, 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
Caprivi Strip CPV
Kenya KEN
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Namibia NAM
Tanzania TAN
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.

  • Dregea macrantha Klotzsch
  • Marsdenia macrantha (Klotzsch) Schltr.
  • Marsdenia zambesiaca Schltr.
  • Periploca petersiana Vatke

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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