Tribulus zeyheriSond.

WFO wfo-0000457817 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Tribulus zeyheri, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2018-08-30 / obs. 25442952
Tribulus zeyheri, photographed by Wynand Uys
fig. b Wynand Uys, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110740327
Tribulus zeyheri, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 25442970
Tribulus zeyheri, photographed by Wynand Uys
fig. d Wynand Uys, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110740654
Tribulus zeyheri, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 25443406
Tribulus zeyheri, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 25443044
Tribulus zeyheri, photographed by Cecile Roux
fig. g Cecile Roux, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 58749303
Tribulus zeyheri, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 25443104

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Tribulus zeyheri is native: Angola, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Kenya, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe AngolaBotswanaCape ProvincesEritreaEthiopiaFree StateKenyaNamibiaNorthern ProvincesTanzaniaUgandaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Tribulus zeyheri, 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
Botswana BOT
Cape Provinces CPP
Eritrea ERI
Ethiopia ETH
Free State OFS
Kenya KEN
Namibia NAM
Northern Provinces TVL
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
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 5 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.

  • Tribulus erectus Engl.
  • Tribulus inermis Engl.
  • Tribulus macranthus Hassk.
  • Tribulus pechuelii Kuntze
  • Tribulus terrestris var. zeyheri (Sond.) Schinz

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.