Tiliacora funiferaOliv.

WFO wfo-0000456627 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Tiliacora funifera, photographed by i_c_riddell
fig. a i_c_riddell, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-11-01 / obs. 55824391
Tiliacora funifera, photographed by i_c_riddell
fig. b i_c_riddell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 55824395
Tiliacora funifera, photographed by i_c_riddell
fig. c i_c_riddell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 55824398

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Native range 25 botanical countries

Regions where Tiliacora funifera is native: Benin, Burundi, Cabinda, Cameroon, Congo, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe BeninBurundiCabindaCameroonCongoDR CongoEthiopiaGabonGhanaGuineaIvory CoastKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMalawiMozambiqueNigeriaNorthern ProvincesRwandaSomaliaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaTogoUgandaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Tiliacora funifera, 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
Burundi BUR
Cabinda CAB
Cameroon CMN
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Ethiopia ETH
Gabon GAB
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Ivory Coast IVO
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Nigeria NGA
Northern Provinces TVL
Rwanda RWA
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Togo TOG
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 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.

  • Hypserpa funifera Miers
  • Hypserpa funifera (Oliv.) Miers
  • Limacia funifera (Oliv.) T.Durand & Schinz
  • Tiliacora glycosmantha Diels
  • Tiliacora johannis Exell
  • Tiliacora pynaertii De Wild.
  • Tiliacora troupinii Cufod.
  • Tiliacora warneckei Engl. ex Diels

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.