The following is a list of Protea species.
Section | Common name of section | Species name | Common name | Image | Distribution |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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) |