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Barleria greenii M.Balkwill & K.Balkwill

Wild Bush Petunia; Wild Bushviolet

Acanthaceae · KwaZulu-Natal

No habitat climate
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Barleria greenii, photograph Andrew massyn, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsBarleria greenii, photograph Andrew massyn, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBarleria greenii, photograph Karen Pagel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBarleria greenii, photograph SAplants, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBarleria greenii, photograph SAplants, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBarleria greenii, photograph SAplants, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

Summary

Barleria greenii (Green's barleria, or wild bush petunia), is a plant in the family Acanthaceae. It is endemic to a small area near Estcourt in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Barleria greenii", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Barleria

Barleria is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes 303 species native to the tropics and subtropics, including the Americas from Mexico to northern South America, sub-Saharan Africa, Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula, the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, southern China and Taiwan, parts of Malesia, and New Guinea.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Barleria", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 6 of the 8 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeKwaZulu-Natal · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-28.939, 29.98 · in the densest population, 8 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“subshrub” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 8 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 7 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 4 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 6 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 8 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Andrew massyn, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Andrew massyn, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Karen Pagel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; SAplants, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3).

Other Barleria 15 in the reference

Barleria albostellata Barleria albostellata Grey Barleria Photo: CC BY, linkieBarleria cristata Barleria cristata Crested Philippine violet Photo: CC BY, Raúl A. Ruiz M.Barleria delagoensis Barleria delagoensis Acanthaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedBarleria elegans Barleria elegans White Bushveld Barleria Photo: CC0, author not statedBarleria lancifolia Barleria lancifolia Butterfly Barleria Photo: CC0, author not statedBarleria lichtensteiniana Barleria lichtensteiniana Acanthaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedBarleria lupulina Barleria lupulina Hophead Philippine violet Photo: CC BY-SA, Dairon Cuevas RiverasBarleria obtusa Barleria obtusa Blue Bushviolet Photo: CC BY, Presha SoogrimBarleria oenotheroides Barleria oenotheroides Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Oscar Israel Rodríguez OrtizBarleria prionitis Barleria prionitis Porcupine flower Photo: CC BY, Raja Sekhar ChimiralaBarleria repens Barleria repens Coral Creeper Photo: CC BY, nebrooksBarleria rotundifolia Barleria rotundifolia Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Andrew Hankey all 16 ›

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Acanthaceae
Described by
M.Balkwill & K.Balkwill
Native to
KwaZulu-Natal
Wild records
8 in range · 7 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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