Ypsilopus tricuspis(Bolus) D'haijère & Stévart

WFO wfo-1000034932 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 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.

Ypsilopus tricuspis, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-06-11 / obs. 140716249
Ypsilopus tricuspis, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 140715116
Ypsilopus tricuspis, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 140716324
Ypsilopus tricuspis, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 140716815
Ypsilopus tricuspis, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 140715025

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Ypsilopus tricuspis is native: Burundi, Cape Provinces, DR Congo, Eswatini, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe BurundiCape ProvincesDR CongoEswatiniKwaZulu-NatalMalawiMozambiqueNorthern ProvincesRwandaTanzaniaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Ypsilopus tricuspis, 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
Burundi BUR AFRICA
Cape Provinces CPP
DR Congo ZAI
Eswatini SWZ
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Northern Provinces TVL
Rwanda RWA
Tanzania TAN
Zambia ZAM
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 8 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.

  • Angraecum frommianum Kraenzl.
  • Angraecum rhodesianum Rendle
  • Angraecum tricuspe Bolus
  • Tridactyle fragrans G.Will.
  • Tridactyle frommiana (Kraenzl.) Schltr.
  • Tridactyle nyassana Schltr.
  • Tridactyle rhodesiana (Rendle) Schltr.
  • Tridactyle tricuspis (Bolus) Schltr.

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.