Strychnos usambarensisGilg ex Engl.

WFO wfo-0000501270 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.

Strychnos usambarensis, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. a Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-25 / obs. 165585096
Strychnos usambarensis, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. b Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154684509
Strychnos usambarensis, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. c Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112704181
Strychnos usambarensis, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. d Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109729692
Strychnos usambarensis, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. e Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165585176
Strychnos usambarensis, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. f Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154684540
Strychnos usambarensis, photographed by Andrew Deacon
fig. g Andrew Deacon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173169513
Strychnos usambarensis, photographed by Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan
fig. h Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 194635084

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Strychnos usambarensis is native: Benin, Burkina, Burundi, Congo, DR Congo, Eswatini, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe BeninBurkinaBurundiCongoDR CongoEswatiniGhanaGuineaIvory CoastKenyaKwaZulu-NatalLiberiaMadagascarMozambiqueNigeriaNorthern ProvincesRwandaSierra LeoneTanzaniaUgandaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Strychnos usambarensis, 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
Benin BEN AFRICA
Burkina BKN
Burundi BUR
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Eswatini SWZ
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Ivory Coast IVO
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Liberia LBR
Madagascar MDG
Mozambique MOZ
Nigeria NGA
Northern Provinces TVL
Rwanda RWA
Sierra Leone SIE
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.

Also published as 5 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.

  • Strychnos cerasifera Gilg
  • Strychnos cooperi Hutch. & M.B.Moss
  • Strychnos cooperi M.B.Moss, Hutch. & Dalziel
  • Strychnos distichophylla Gilg
  • Strychnos micans S.Moore

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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