Tetraria bromoides(Lam.) H.Pfeiff.

WFO wfo-0000569364 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Tetraria bromoides, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-09 / obs. 205870352
Tetraria bromoides, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 205868774
Tetraria bromoides, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 194675449
Tetraria bromoides, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 194962220
Tetraria bromoides, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 194819227
Tetraria bromoides, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 194961298
Tetraria bromoides, photographed by linkie
fig. g linkie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195070182
Tetraria bromoides, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 190928284

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Tetraria bromoides is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Tetraria bromoides, 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 12 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.

  • Lepidosperma brehmeri Boeckeler
  • Lepidosperma rottboellii Schrad.
  • Lepidosperma teres Nees ex C.B.Clarke
  • Schoenus bromoides Lam.
  • Schoenus rottboellii (Schrad.) Kuntze
  • Sclerochaetium angustifolium Hochst.
  • Sclerochaetium koenigii Nees ex Hochst.
  • Sclerochaetium rottboellii (Schrad.) Nees
  • Sclerochaetium teres Nees ex C.B.Clarke
  • Tetraria angustifolia (Hochst.) H.Pfeiff.
  • Tetraria rottboellii (Schrad.) C.B.Clarke
  • Tetraria rottboellioides C.B.Clarke

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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