Protea gaguedi is a species of tree which belongs to the genus Protea. [5] This tree is known by the common name of African protea. [6][7] Other vernacular names for this species used in South Africa include African sugarbush, [3][8][9] African white …

Discover the flowering plant tree of life and the genomic data used to build it. The native range of this species is Eritrea to S. Africa. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024).

Usually a small tree. Leaves oblong to elliptic, often distinctly sickle-shaped, hairless except for a few hairs near the base of the leafblade, light green to blue-green with the midrib yellowish and prominent.

Protea gaguedi is similar to Protea welwitschii and has hairless mature leaves and solitary flower heads. It is widely distributed in Africa, from Ethiopia to KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. …

Protea gaguedi is a locally common shrub, and the second-most widespread of all sugarbushes. It has an extent of occurrence (EOO) of 166 980 km². It has declined due to habitat loss over the past 150 years with 32% of its habitat transformed.

These two species are best distinguished by the leaves which are glabrous when mature in P. gaguedi, while in P. welwitschii even the mature leaves are pubescent, or at least retain traces of pubescence along their midribs.

PROTEA Gaguedi Gmel. [family PROTEACEAE], Syst. 225.

Protea gaguedi (also called Gaguedi Protea, among many other common names) is a small, evergreen shrub with leathery leaves and small, white flowers. It is native to South Africa and is found in rocky outcrops and dry, open areas.

Dwarf Savanna Sugarbush - Protea welwitschii Habit: A shrub up to 1.5m tall with numerous stems arising from a rootstock Fire survival: Resprouts from underground bole

The native range of this species is Eritrea to S. Africa. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. Protea abyssinica Willd. in Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 1: 522 (1798), nom. superfl. Scolymocephalus abyssinicus Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 581 (1891), nom. superfl. Protea busseana Engl. in Bot. Jahrb.