Struthiola ciliata(L.) Lam.

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WFO wfo-0001142421 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Struthiola ciliata, photographed by Christina
fig. a Christina, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205204663
Struthiola ciliata, photographed by linkie
fig. b linkie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195652444
Struthiola ciliata, photographed by Caroline Voget
fig. c Caroline Voget, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194427837
Struthiola ciliata, photographed by Jeremy Gilmore
fig. d Jeremy Gilmore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181546762
Struthiola ciliata, photographed by Tim Kirsten
fig. e Tim Kirsten, CC0 1.0 / obs. 172650746
Struthiola ciliata, photographed by douglaseustonbrown
fig. f douglaseustonbrown, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 166547248
Struthiola ciliata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 165962923
Struthiola ciliata, photographed by Di Turner
fig. h Di Turner, CC0 1.0 / obs. 166112255

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Struthiola ciliata is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Struthiola ciliata, 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 34 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.

  • Belvala angustifolia (Lam.) Kuntze
  • Belvala glauca (Lodd.) Kuntze
  • Belvala longiflora (Lam.) Kuntze
  • Belvala lucens (Poir.) Kuntze
  • Belvala spicata Raf.
  • Belvala tuberculosa (Lam.) Kuntze
  • Belvala virgata (L.) Kuntze
  • Gnidia ciliata (L.) Meisn.
  • Passerina ciliata L.
  • Struthiola angustifolia Lam.
  • Struthiola ciliata subsp. ciliata
  • Struthiola concava S.Moore
  • Struthiola flavescens Gilg ex C.H.Wright
  • Struthiola floribunda C.H.Wright
  • Struthiola glauca Lodd.
  • Struthiola incana G.Lodd.
  • Struthiola longiflora Lam.
  • Struthiola lucens Poir.
  • Struthiola pillansii Hutch.
  • Struthiola pubescens Retz.
  • Struthiola rubra Donn
  • Struthiola rustiana Gilg
  • Struthiola schlechteri Gilg ex C.H.Wright
  • Struthiola subulata Vahl ex Wikstr.

and 10 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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.