Discopodium penninervium Hochst.

Native to:

Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, DR Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gulf of Guinea Is., Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Aedo, C., Tellería, M.T. & Velayos, M. (eds.) (1999). Bases Documentales para la Flora de Guinea Ecuatorial; Plantas vascularis y hongos: 1-414. CSIC, real jardín Botánico, Madrid.
• Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.
• Bikandu, B., Lukoki, F. & Habari, J.P. (2020). Flore d'Afrique Centrale (Zaire-rwanda-Burundi) Solanaceae: 1-162. Jardin Botanique National de Belgique.
• Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Edmonds, J. (2012). Flora of Tropical East Africa Solanaceae: 1-239.
• Gonçalves, A.E. (2005). Flora Zambesiaca 8(4): 1-124. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS Genera starting with letter D: 1-30141.
• Hedberg, I., Kelbessa, E., Edwards, S., Demissew, S. & Persson, E. (eds.) (2006). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 5: 1-690. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
• Kalema, J. & Beentje, H. (2012). Conservation checklist of the trees of Uganda: 1-235. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• F.T.A. 4, 2: 253
• Robyns Fl. Parc Nat. Alb. 2: 203 (1947)
• in Flora 1844: 22

Flora Zambesiaca

• A. de Candolle, Prodr. 13, 1: 478 (1852).
• Agnew, Upland Kenya Wild Fl.: 528 (1974).
• Beentje, Kenya Trees, Shrubs & Lianas: 578, cum tab. (1994).
• Brenan & Greenway, Check-list For. Trees Shrubs Tang. Terr.: 574 (1949).
• Burtt Davy & Bolton, Check-list For. Trees Shrubs Brit. Emp., Uganda Prot.: 113 (1935).
• Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees & Shrubs: 537 (1961) as “penninervum”.
• F.T.A. 4, 2: 253 (1906).
• Fl. Rwanda 3: 368, fig. 118/1 (1985).
• Flora 27: 22 (1844).
• Robyns, Fl. Sperm. Parc Nat. Alb. 2: 203 (1947).
• White, Dowsett-Lemaire & Chapman, Evergreen For. Fl. Malawi: 552 (2001). TAB. 13.

Kew Backbone Distributions

• Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.
• Edmonds, J. (2012). Flora of Tropical East Africa Solanaceae: 1-239.
• Hedberg, I., Kelbessa, E., Edwards, S., Demissew, S. & Persson, E. (eds.) (2006). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 5: 1-690. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• DC., Prodr. 13(1): 478 (1852)
• E. & P. Pf.: 15 (1895)
• E.P.A. 2: 856 (1963)
• Engl., Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr.: 374 (1892)
• F.P.N.A. 2: 203 (1947)
• F.T.A. 4, 2: 253 (1906)
• F.W.T.A. 2nd ed., 2: 328 (1963)
• F.Z. 8(4): 63 (2005)
• Fl. Eth. 5: 150 (2006).
• Flora 27: 22 (1844)
• G.P. 2: 893 (1876)
• I.T.U.: 413 (1952)
• K.T.S.: 537 (1961)
• K.T.S.L.: 578 (1994)
• T.S.K.: 158 (1936)
• T.T.C.L.: 574 (1949)
• Tax. & Ecol. African plants: 681 (2006)
• Troupin, Fl. Rwanda 3: 368 (1985)
• U.K.W.F.: 528 (1974)
• Z.A.E.: 282 (1914)