Tapinanthus bangwensis(Engl. & K.Krause) Danser

WFO wfo-0000413254 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 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.

Tapinanthus bangwensis, photographed by Lucy Keith-Diagne
fig. a Lucy Keith-Diagne, CC BY 4.0 / 2017-12-02 / obs. 107988424
Tapinanthus bangwensis, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. b Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174837858
Tapinanthus bangwensis, photographed by Lucy Keith-Diagne
fig. c Lucy Keith-Diagne, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107988814

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Tapinanthus bangwensis is native: Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, DR Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mauritania, Senegal, Togo BeninBurkinaCameroonCentral African RepublicChadDR CongoGabonGambiaGuineaGuinea-BissauGulf of Guinea Is.Ivory CoastLiberiaMauritaniaSenegalTogo
Native distribution of Tapinanthus bangwensis, 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
Cameroon CMN
Central African Republic CAF
Chad CHA
DR Congo ZAI
Gabon GAB
Gambia GAM
Guinea GUI
Guinea-Bissau GNB
Gulf of Guinea Is. GGI
Ivory Coast IVO
Liberia LBR
Mauritania MTN
Senegal SEN
Togo TOG

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 6 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.

  • Loranthus bangwensis Engl. & K.Krause
  • Loranthus riggenbachii Engl. & K.Krause
  • Loranthus thonningii Schumach. & Thonn.
  • Tapinanthus globifer subsp. bangwensis (Engl. & K.Krause) Balle
  • Tapinanthus globiferus subsp. bangwensis (Engl. & K.Krause) Balle
  • Tapinanthus thonningii (Schumach.) Danser

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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