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Apocynaceae

Hoodia

Hoodia pilifera (L.f.) Plowes

First published in Asklepios 56: 10 (1992)

This species is accepted

The native range of this species is Cape Prov. It is a succulent subshrub or shrub and grows primarily in the subtropical biome.

Distribution
Synonyms
Accepted Infraspecifics
Publications
Other data

Native to:

Cape Provinces

Homotypic Synonyms

Ceropegia pilifera (L.f.) Bruyns in S. African J. Bot. 112: 420 (2017)
Piaranthus pilifer (L.f.) Sweet in Hort. Brit., ed. 2: 359 (1830)
Stapelia pilifera L.f. in Suppl. Pl.: 171 (1782)
Stisseria pilifera (L.f.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 422 (1891)
Trichocaulon piliferum (L.f.) N.E.Br. in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 17: 164 (1878)

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.

Kew Backbone Distributions

Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images