List of Protea species
Appearance
The following is a list of Protea species.
Table of Protea species
[edit]Section | Common name of section | Species name | Common name | Image | Distribution |
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Craterifolia | penduline protea | Protea effusa[1] | Scarlet sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape province) |
Protea namaquana[2] | Kamiesberg sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Kamiesberg mountains of Namaqualand in the Northern Cape province) | ||
Protea pendula | Nodding sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape province) | ||
Protea recondita | Hidden sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape province) | ||
Protea sulphurea | Sulphur sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape province) | ||
Crinitae | eastern ground protea | Protea foliosa | Leafy sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Eastern Cape province) |
Protea intonsa | Tufted sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Swartberg and Kammanassie Mountains to the Baviaanskloof Mountains.) | ||
Protea montana | Swartberg sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Swartberg and Kammanassie Mountains.) | ||
Protea tenax | Tenacious sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Outeniqua, Tsitsikamma, Kouga and Winterhoek Mountains) | ||
Protea vogtsiae | Kouga sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western and Eastern Cape) | ||
Cristatae | Moorland protea | Protea asymmetrica | Inyanga sugarbush | Zimbabwe | |
Protea wentzeliana | Wentzel's sugarbush | ![]() |
Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, southern Tanzania and central Angola. | ||
Exsertae | White protea | Protea aurea aurea | Common shuttlecock protea | South Africa (Western Cape province) | |
Protea aurea potbergensis | Potberg sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Potberg near Cape Infanta.) | ||
Protea lacticolor | Hottentot sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (the Slanghoek to the Hottentots Holland Mountains and also the Groenlandberg.) | ||
Protea mundii | Forest sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape province) | ||
Protea punctata | Water sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Eastern and Western Cape province) | ||
Protea subvestita | Waterlily sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Eastern Cape province) | ||
Protea venusta | Cascade sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Clanwilliam to Grahamstown) | ||
Hypocephalae | Rodent protea | Protea amplexicaulis | Claspingleaf sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape province) |
Protea cordata | Heartleaf sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape province) | ||
Protea decurrens | Linearleaf sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape province) | ||
Protea humiflora | Patentleaf sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape province) | ||
Protea subulifolia | Awl-leaf sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape province) | ||
Lasiocephalae | savanna protea | Protea gaguedi | African sugarbush | ![]() |
Sudan (including South Sudan), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Angola, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Eswatini and South Africa. |
Protea welwitschii | Dwarf savanna sugarbush | ![]() |
Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Angola, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Lesotho, and South Africa. | ||
Leiocephalea | grassveld protea | Protea caffra caffra | Highveld sugerbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Gauteng, Kwazulu-Natal, Northern Province, Mpumalanga, the Eastern Cape as far south as the Katberg mountains) and Lesotho |
Protea caffra gazensis | Manica sugarbush | Mozambique and Zimbabwe, including the Nyanga Mountains and Chimanimani Mountains, and on Mount Gorongosa in Mozambique. | |||
Protea caffra kilimandscharica | Kilimanjaro sugarbush | Mt Kenya | |||
Protea caffra nyasea | Malawi sugarbush | Malawi | |||
Protea dracomontana | Drakensberg sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Eastern Cape, Lesotho, KwaZulu-Natal and Free State) | ||
Protea nubigena | Cloud sugarbush | South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal) | |||
Protea parvula | Dainty sugarbush | ![]() |
Mpumalanga | ||
Protea petiolaris elegans | Sickle-leaf sugarbush | Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia and Zimbabwe. | |||
Protea petiolaris petiolaris | Sickle-leaf sugarbush | Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. | |||
Protea simplex | Dwarf grassveld sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Eswatini and Mpumalanga) | ||
shaving-brush protea | Protea caffra kilimandscharica | Kilimanjaro sugarbush | ![]() |
DRC, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda | |
Protea caffra mafingensis | Mafingo sugarbush | Malawi and Zambia | |||
Protea rupicola | Krantz sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western and Eastern Cape) | ||
Protea glabra | Clanwilliam sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western cape) | ||
Protea inopina | Largenut sugarbush | ![]() |
Paleisheuwel | ||
Protea nitida | Wagon tree | ![]() |
South Africa (Eastern Cape) | ||
Ligulatae | spoon-bract protea | Protea burchellii | Burchell's sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Southwestern Cape) |
Protea compacta | Bot river sugarbush | ![]() |
Kleinmond to Bredasdorp Mountains South Africa | ||
Protea eximia | Broadleaf sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape) | ||
Protea longifolia | Longleaf sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape) | |||
Protea obtusifolia | Limestone sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape) | ||
Protea pudens | Bashful sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape) | ||
Protea roupelliae hamiltonii | Dwarf silver sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape), Zimbabwe | ||
Protea roupelliae roupelliae | Silver sugarbush | Clanwilliam to Grahamstown, South Africa. | |||
Protea susannae | Stinkleaf sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape) | ||
Melliferae | sugerbushes | Protea aristata | Ladismith sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape) |
Protea lanceolata | Lanceleaf sugarbush | South Africa | |||
Protea repens | Common sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa | ||
Microgeantae | western ground protea | Protea acaulos | Common ground sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape) |
Protea convexa | Largeleaf sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape) | |||
Protea laevis | Smoothleaf sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape) | ||
Protea revoluta | Rolledleaf sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape) | ||
Protea angustata | Wide laef sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape) | ||
Obvallatae | bishop protea | Protea caespitosa | Bishop sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape province) |
Paludosae | rooi protea | Protea enervis | Chimanimani sugarbush | ![]() |
Zimbabwe and Mozambique |
Paracynaroides | sneeu protea | Protea cryophila | Snowball protea | ![]() |
South Africa (Cederberg) |
Protea pruinosa | Frosted sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape province) | ||
Protea scabriuscula | Hoary sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape province) | ||
Protea scolopendriifolia | Hart's tonguefern sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western and Eastern Cape province) | ||
Parviflorae | shale protea | Protea mucronifolia | Daggerleaf sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa |
Protea odorata | Swartland sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa | ||
Patentiflorae | mountain protea | Protea angolensis angolensis | Dwarf northernwoodland sugarbush | northern, central and eastern Zimbabwe | |
Protea angolensis divaricata | Northern woodland sugarbush | Zambia, western Angola, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, southern and western Tanzania, northern Malawi, and to a limited extent in Mozambique (Tete) | |||
Protea comptonii | Saddleback sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal) | ||
Protea curvata | Barberton sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa | ||
Protea laetans | Blyde sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Mpumalanga) | ||
Protea madiensis | Tall woodland sugarbush | ![]() |
Senegal to Ethiopia in the north, to Angola, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia, Guinea to Mali in the north, south to Sierra Leone, Benin and Cameroon. | ||
Protea rubropilosa | Transvaal sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Mpumalanga and Limpopo) | ||
Protea rupestris | Rocket sugarbush | Malawi, Mozambique, Angola and Tanzania | |||
Pinifolia | rose protea | Protea acuminata | Blackrim sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa |
Protea canaliculata | Grooveleaf sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape province) | |||
Protea nana | Mountainrose sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape province) | ||
Protea pityphylla | Ceres sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape province) | ||
Protea scolymocephala | Thistle sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape province) | |||
Protea witzenbergiana | Swan sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape province) | ||
Protea | king protea | Protea cynaroides | King protea | ![]() |
South Africa |
Speciosae | bearded sugerbush | Protea coronata | Green sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western and Eastern Cape) |
Protea grandiceps | Red sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Cape Peninsula, Hottentots-Holland Mountains, Riviersonderend Mountains, Langeberg, Outeniqua Mountains, Winterhoek Mountains and Kamanassie Mountains) | ||
Protea holosericea | Sawedge sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape) | ||
Protea laurifolia | Greyleaf sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Northern and Western Cape) | ||
Protea lepidocarpodendron | Blackbeard sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape) | ||
Protea lorifolia | Strapleaf sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Swartberg, Riviersonderend and Langeberg Mountains, to the Baviaanskloofberge and Kouga Mountains.) | ||
Protea magnifica[3] | Queen protea | South Africa (Western Cape) | |||
Protea neriifolia | Narrowleaf sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Eastern and Western Cape) | ||
Protea speciosa | Brownbeard sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape) | |||
Protea stokoei | Pink sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Kogelberg and Greenland Mountains) | ||
Subacaules | dwarf-tufted protea | Protea aspera | Roughleaf sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Kleinrivier Mountains, Bredasdorpberg and Garcia's Pass.) |
Protea denticulata | Toothleaf sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa | ||
Protea lorea | Thongleaf sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape) | ||
Protea piscina | Visgat sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa | ||
Protea restionifolia[4] | Reedleaf sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape province) | |||
Protea scabra[5] | Sandpaperleaf sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Hottentots Holland Mountains across the Riviersonderend Mountains, the Kleinrivier Mountains and around the town of Caledon to the Swartberg Mountains) | ||
Protea scorzonerifolia[6] | Channelleaf sugarbush | ![]() |
South Africa (Western Cape) |
References
[edit]- ^ "Protea effusa (Scarlet sugarbush)". Biodiversity Explorer. Iziko - Museums of South Africa. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
- ^ Rebelo, A.G.; Mtshali, H.; von Staden, L. (1 September 2006). "Kamiesberg Sugarbush". Red List of South African Plants. version 2020.1. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
- ^ Wiersema, John H.; León, Blanca (1999). World Economic Plants: A Standard Reference (illustrated ed.). CRC Press. p. 693. ISBN 9780849321191.
- ^ Tony Rebelo (25 January 2008). Protea Atlas (PDF) (Report). South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch, Cape Town. p. 20-22. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
- ^ Tony Rebelo (25 January 2008). Protea Atlas, part 4 (PDF) (Report). South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch, Cape Town. p. 23-24. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
- ^ Lamont, Byron B.; Downes, Katherine S. (2011-12-01). "Fire-stimulated flowering among resprouters and geophytes in Australia and South Africa". Plant Ecology. 212 (12): 2111–2125. doi:10.1007/s11258-011-9987-y. ISSN 1573-5052.