Thonningia sanguineaVahl

WFO wfo-0000410707 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

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.

Thonningia sanguinea, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. a Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / 2021-12-15 / obs. 174803891
Thonningia sanguinea, photographed by Matt Muir
fig. b Matt Muir, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28664406
Thonningia sanguinea, photographed by Sunday Berlioz KAKPO
fig. c Sunday Berlioz KAKPO, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 26104052
Thonningia sanguinea, photographed by M Rutherford
fig. d M Rutherford, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60853281
Thonningia sanguinea, photographed by Lucy Keith-Diagne
fig. e Lucy Keith-Diagne, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108396420
Thonningia sanguinea, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. f Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 110275791
Thonningia sanguinea, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. g Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174803902
Thonningia sanguinea, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. h Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 110275797

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Native range 25 botanical countries

Regions where Thonningia sanguinea is native: Angola, Benin, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia AngolaBeninBurkinaBurundiCameroonCentral African RepublicCongoDR CongoEthiopiaGabonGhanaGuineaGuinea-BissauIvory CoastKenyaLiberiaNigeriaRwandaSenegalSierra LeoneSudan-South SudanTanzaniaTogoUgandaZambia
Native distribution of Thonningia sanguinea, 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
Angola ANG AFRICA
Benin BEN
Burkina BKN
Burundi BUR
Cameroon CMN
Central African Republic CAF
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Ethiopia ETH
Gabon GAB
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Guinea-Bissau GNB
Ivory Coast IVO
Kenya KEN
Liberia LBR
Nigeria NGA
Rwanda RWA
Senegal SEN
Sierra Leone SIE
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Togo TOG
Uganda UGA
Zambia ZAM

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.

  • Thonningia angolensis Hemsl.
  • Thonningia coccinea Mangenot
  • Thonningia dubia Hemsl.
  • Thonningia elegans Hemsl.
  • Thonningia sessilis Lecomte
  • Thonningia ugandensis Hemsl.

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.

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.