Treculia africanaDecne. ex Trécul

African breadfruit

WFO wfo-0000456573 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs 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.

Treculia africana, photographed by Carrie Seltzer
fig. a Carrie Seltzer, CC BY 4.0 / 2008-06-12 / obs. 1368161
Treculia africana, photographed by udehb
fig. b udehb, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203883405
Treculia africana, photographed by udehb
fig. c udehb, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203883446

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Native range 25 botanical countries

Regions where Treculia africana is native: Angola, Benin, Cabinda, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia AngolaBeninCabindaCameroonCentral African RepublicCongoDR CongoGabonGambiaGhanaGuineaGuinea-BissauGulf of Guinea Is.Ivory CoastLiberiaMadagascarMalawiMozambiqueNigeriaSenegalSierra LeoneSudan-South SudanTanzaniaUgandaZambia
Native distribution of Treculia africana, 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
Cabinda CAB
Cameroon CMN
Central African Republic CAF
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Gabon GAB
Gambia GAM
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Guinea-Bissau GNB
Gulf of Guinea Is. GGI
Ivory Coast IVO
Liberia LBR
Madagascar MDG
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Nigeria NGA
Senegal SEN
Sierra Leone SIE
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
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 13 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.

  • Artocarpus africanus Sim
  • Ficus whytei Stapf
  • Treculia affona N.E.Br.
  • Treculia africana subsp. africana
  • Treculia africana subsp. madagascarica (N.E.Br.) C.C.Berg
  • Treculia africana var. africana
  • Treculia centralis A.Chev.
  • Treculia dewevrei De Wild. & T.Durand
  • Treculia madagascarica N.E.Br.
  • Treculia mollis Engl.
  • Treculia perrieri Jum.
  • Treculia perrieri var. ilicifolia Leandri
  • Treculia sambiranensis Leandri

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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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