Wahlenbergia tenella

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Wahlenbergia tenella, photographed by Jeremy Gilmore — fig. b Jeremy Gilmore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175823758

Wahlenbergia tenella, photographed by kevin koen — fig. c kevin koen, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 168089029

Wahlenbergia tenella, photographed by Dave U — fig. d Dave U, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 128425361

Wahlenbergia tenella, photographed by Matthew Fainman — fig. e Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60235380

Wahlenbergia tenella, photographed by Tony Rebelo — fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 58799500

Wahlenbergia tenella, photographed by Chris Vynbos — fig. h Chris Vynbos, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 36507481

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Native range 1 botanical country

Native distribution of Wahlenbergia tenella, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
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 11 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.

Campanula ciliata Thunb.
Campanula tenella L.f.
Lightfootia diffusa H.Buek
Lightfootia diffusa var. palustris Adamson
Lightfootia diffusa var. stokoei Adamson
Lightfootia tenella A.DC.
Lightfootia tenella f. flaviflora Kuntze
Lightfootia tenella var. brevivalvis A.DC.
Lightfootia tenella var. diffusa (H.Buek) Zahlbr.
Wahlenbergia tenella var. palustris (Adamson) Welman
Wahlenbergia tenella var. stokoei (Adamson) Welman

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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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