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Protea comptonii
Also called Barberton Sugarbush, Saddleback Sugarbush, Barberton Protea
Protea comptonii, also known as saddleback sugarbush, is a smallish tree of the genus Protea in the family Proteaceae. It is found in South Africa and Eswatini.
In South Africa this plant occurs in two disjunct populations in the provinces of Mpumalanga (eastern) and KwaZulu-Natal (northern). The KwaZulu-Natal range is restricted to the hills around the town of Vryheid and the Ithala Game Reserve in the eNgotshe region around the town of Louwsburg, but as of 2019 it has become extirpated from the Vryheid hills. The Mpumalanga population spills over into Eswatini, where the tree grows only in the far northwest -this population is found in the hills south of the town of Barberton and southeast from Kaapsehoop, an old gold rush town -an ancient land with very special ultramafic soil. Protea curvata also occurs here.
There are no recorded uses known in Eswatini. According to the IUCN the bark is used in traditional medicine by locals.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Protea comptonii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
