Tromotriche revoluta(Masson) Haw.

WFO wfo-0001100984 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 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.

Tromotriche revoluta, photographed by James Deacon
fig. a James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-09-01 / obs. 154907625
Tromotriche revoluta, photographed by James Deacon
fig. b James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 154907649
Tromotriche revoluta, photographed by James Deacon
fig. c James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 154907634
Tromotriche revoluta, photographed by James Deacon
fig. d James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 154907639

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Tromotriche revoluta is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Tromotriche revoluta, 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
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA

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 17 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.

  • Stapelia fuscata Jacq.
  • Stapelia glauca (Haw.) Jacq.
  • Stapelia protensa Hornem.
  • Stapelia revoluta Masson
  • Stapelia tigridia Decne.
  • Stissera fuscata (Jacq.) Kuntze
  • Stissera glauca (Haw.) Kuntze
  • Stissera revoluta (Masson) Kuntze
  • Stissera tigridia (Decne.) Kuntze
  • Stisseria fuscata (Jacq.) Kuntze
  • Stisseria glauca (Haw.) Kuntze
  • Stisseria revoluta (Masson) Kuntze
  • Stisseria tigridia (Decne.) Kuntze
  • Tromotriche fuscata (Jacq.) Haw.
  • Tromotriche glauca Haw.
  • Tromotriche revoluta var. fuscata (Jacq.) P.V.Heath
  • Tromotriche revoluta var. tigridia (Decne.) P.V.Heath

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.