Tragia plukenetiiRadcl.-Sm.

WFO wfo-0000326855 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.

Tragia plukenetii, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. a Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2015-10-30 / obs. 61422680
Tragia plukenetii, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. b Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61422661
Tragia plukenetii, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. c Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61422655

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Tragia plukenetii is native: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Djibouti, DR Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, India, Sri Lanka CameroonCentral African RepublicChadDjiboutiDR CongoEritreaEthiopiaKenyaMozambiqueNigeriaSomaliaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaUgandaZambiaZimbabweIndiaSri Lanka
Native distribution of Tragia plukenetii, 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
Cameroon CMN AFRICA
Central African Republic CAF
Chad CHA
Djibouti DJI
DR Congo ZAI
Eritrea ERI
Ethiopia ETH
Kenya KEN
Mozambique MOZ
Nigeria NGA
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM
India IND ASIA-TROPICAL
Sri Lanka SRL

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 10 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.

  • Croton hastatus L.
  • Tragia brouniana Prain
  • Tragia cannabina L.f.
  • Tragia cannabina var. brouniana (Prain) Prain
  • Tragia cannabina var. hastata (L.) Pax & K.Hoffm.
  • Tragia cannabina var. intermedia (Müll.Arg.) Prain
  • Tragia gallabatensis Prain
  • Tragia involucrata var. cannabina Müll.Arg.
  • Tragia involucrata var. intermedia Müll.Arg.
  • Tragia tripartita Beille

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.