Struthiola striataLam.

WFO wfo-0001142453 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Struthiola striata, photographed by linkie
fig. a linkie, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-29 / obs. 194954384
Struthiola striata, photographed by Caroline Voget
fig. b Caroline Voget, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158366852
Struthiola striata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 124795558
Struthiola striata, photographed by Jeremy Gilmore
fig. d Jeremy Gilmore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 97487438
Struthiola striata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 57952777
Struthiola striata, photographed by Jeremy Gilmore
fig. f Jeremy Gilmore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 55556481
Struthiola striata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 55431605
Struthiola striata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 55432423

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Struthiola striata is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Struthiola striata, 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 8 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 striata (Lam.) Kuntze
  • Struthiola brevifolia Willd. ex Meisn.
  • Struthiola imbricata Andrews
  • Struthiola lateriflora Hornem.
  • Struthiola striata var. angustifolia Meisn.
  • Struthiola striata var. imbricata (Andrews) Poir.
  • Struthiola sulcata F.W.Schmidt
  • Struthiola virgata J.C.Wendl.

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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