Wahlenbergia thunbergii(Schult.) B.Nord.

WFO wfo-0000820274 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Wahlenbergia thunbergii, photographed by kevin koen
fig. a kevin koen, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 192413249
Wahlenbergia thunbergii, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. b Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 167075471
Wahlenbergia thunbergii, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. c Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 20240873
Wahlenbergia thunbergii, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. d Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15189360
Wahlenbergia thunbergii, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. e Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 22725074
Wahlenbergia thunbergii, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. f Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195722132
Wahlenbergia thunbergii, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. g Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 128052101
Wahlenbergia thunbergii, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. h Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 34788152

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Wahlenbergia thunbergii is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Wahlenbergia thunbergii, 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 22 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 thunbergii Schult.
  • Lightfootia buekii Sond.
  • Lightfootia ciliata Sond.
  • Lightfootia ciliata var. debilis Sond.
  • Lightfootia ciliata var. major Sond.
  • Lightfootia ciliata var. pubescens (A.DC.) Sond.
  • Lightfootia divaricata H.Buek
  • Lightfootia divaricata var. debilis (Sond.) Adamson
  • Lightfootia divaricata var. filifolia Adamson
  • Lightfootia intermedia H.Buek ex Eckl. & Zeyh.
  • Lightfootia mucronulata H.Buek
  • Lightfootia pubescens A.DC.
  • Lightfootia thymifolia H.Buek
  • Lightfootia uitenhagensis H.Buek
  • Roella thunbergii (Schult.) A.DC.
  • Wahlenbergia thunbergii var. debilis (Sond.) B.Nord.
  • Wahlenbergia thunbergii var. filifolia (Adamson) B.Nord.
  • Wahlenbergia thunbergii var. thunbergii
  • Wahlenbergia uitenhagensis (H.Buek) Lammers
  • Wahlenbergia uitenhagensis var. debilis (Sond.) Welman
  • Wahlenbergia uitenhagensis var. debilis (Sond.) Welman
  • Wahlenbergia uitenhagensis var. filifolia (Adamson) Welman

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.

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