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Tetragonia fruticosa; photograph (c) Cricket Raspet, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Cricket Raspet, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2026-09-05

Tetragonia fruticosa L.

Lettucebush; Sea Coral; Sprawling Duneweed; Sprawling Seacoral

Aizoaceae · Namibia

No habitat climate
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Tetragonia fruticosa, photograph (c) Jessica Utrup, some rights reserved (CC BY)Tetragonia fruticosa, photograph (c) Jessica Utrup, some rights reserved (CC BY)Tetragonia fruticosa, photograph (c) Cricket Raspet, some rights reserved (CC BY)Tetragonia fruticosa, photograph (c) chrisdt, some rights reserved (CC BY)Tetragonia fruticosa, photograph (c) chrisdt, some rights reserved (CC BY)Tetragonia fruticosa, photograph (c) chrisdt, some rights reserved (CC BY) 72 photographs ›

Summary

Tetragonia fruticosa, or kinkelbossie, is a coastal perennial shrub or scrambler endemic to Namibia. It is well-suited to dune sand stabilisation and often browsed by livestock and game. It is found from sea-level to about 1100 metres.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Tetragonia fruticosa", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Tetragonia

Tetragonia is a genus of 51 species of flowering plants in the family Aizoaceae, native to temperate and subtropical regions mostly of the Southern Hemisphere, in New Zealand, Australia, southern and eastern Africa, and western South America, and eastern Asia.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Tetragonia", 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 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 6 of the 7 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.
NativeNamibia · introduced: Victoria · 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-28.874, 17.229 · in the densest population, 5 records (71% of those in range)
Kew's description“subshrub” · “desert or dry shrubland” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 7 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 1084 records 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 7 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: (c) Jessica Utrup, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Cricket Raspet, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) chrisdt, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3).

Other Tetragonia 5 in the reference

Tetragonia decumbens Tetragonia decumbens Coast Lettuce Photo: CC BY, Jessica UtrupTetragonia echinata Tetragonia echinata Glitter Leaf Photo: CC BY, Kevin FaccendaTetragonia implexicoma Tetragonia implexicoma New Zealand Climbing Spinach Photo: CC0, author not statedTetragonia tetragonoides Tetragonia tetragonoides New Zealand-spinach Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneyTetragonia trigyna Tetragonia trigyna Aizoaceae Photo: CC0, Jaco Grundling

Names & registers

Also known as Tetragonia fruticosa var. lanceolata; Tetragonia fruticosa var. linearis; Tetragonia lanceolata; Tetragonia linearis. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Aizoaceae
Described by
L.
Native to
Namibia
Wild records
7 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 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
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; 6 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (3 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium, 2 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 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 answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 16 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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