Distribution Map

Cephalaria foliosa

Global status (2024) VU - Vulnerable B1ab(ii,iii)+2ab(ii,iii), 8 herbarium specimens

South African Red List status: VU (2006)

IUCN Red List: VU B1ab(ii,iii)+2ab(ii,iii)

Global Distribution: NE1, NE2, Endemic to Limpopo Mpumalanga Eswatini Escarpment centre of endemism
Found within protected areas: Malolotja

Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*):
Cephalaria foliosa - Erect, robust, up to 1,5 m high. Stem ribbed, hairless except for few fine hairs below nodes. Leaves in several well-spaced pairs along stem, stalkless, oval, broadest below middle, with numerous pointed teeth directed forwards, tip narrowing to long sharp toothless point, up to 15 cm long X 6 cm wide. Flowering stems terminal and in axils of smaller leaves, forking once or twice, final branches up to 20 cm or more long; inflorescences up to 2,5 cm diam; outer bracts rounded, blunt, almost hairless, inner pointed, silky. Corolla white, densely silky outside, lobes oblong, pointed, c 5 mm long.

* Where species names have changed, these have been matched according to herbarium specimens quoted in this publication.

Notes:
Global distribution information: southern Africa includes southern Mozambique and southern Zimbabwe.
Restricted distribution has been based on an estimated extent of occurence of less than 100 000 km2 and/or an estimated area of occupancy of 100 km2, based on geo-referenced GBIF and iNaturalist data.