Taxon:
Lessertia frutescens (L.) Goldblatt & J. C. Manning
Summary
Place of publication:
Strelitzia 9:708. 2000
Verified:
05/26/2004
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Bond, P. & P. Goldblatt. Plants of the Cape Flora, J. S. African Bot. suppl. vol. 13. 1984 Note: = Sutherlandia frutescens (L.) R. Br.
- Goldblatt, P. & J. Manning. Cape plants: a conspectus of the Cape flora of South Africa. Strelitzia vol. 9. 2000 Note: accepts
- Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 Note: = Sutherlandia frutescens (L.) R. Br.
- Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase²: the Western Australian flora (on-line resource). Note: accepts
Common names
English
balloon-pea – cancerbush – duckplant –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Africa | Southern Africa | Botswana | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Southern Africa | Lesotho | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Southern Africa | Namibia | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Southern Africa | South Africa | Cape Province | |
1 | Native | Africa | Southern Africa | South Africa | KwaZulu-Natal | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | also cult. |
4 | Naturalized | Africa | East Tropical Africa | Kenya | | |
4 | Naturalized | Australasia | Australia | Australia | Western Australia | s. |
Native
Africa
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SOUTHERN AFRICA:
Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa [Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal]
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Naturalized
Africa
-
EAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Kenya
Australasia
-
AUSTRALIA:
Australia [Western Australia (s.)]
Economic Uses
Environmental
Medicines
folklore (fide J Ethnopharmacol 119:342-355. 2008, as Sutherlandia frutescens) –