# List of Protea species

The following is a list of Protea species.

## Table of Protea species

| Section | Common name of section | Species name | Common name | Distribution |
| Craterifolia | penduline protea | Protea effusa | Scarlet sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape province) |
| Craterifolia | penduline protea | Protea namaquana | Kamiesberg sugarbush | South Africa (Kamiesberg mountains of Namaqualand in the Northern Cape province) |
| Craterifolia | penduline protea | Protea pendula | Nodding sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape province) |
| Craterifolia | penduline protea | Protea recondita | Hidden sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape province) |
| Craterifolia | penduline protea | Protea sulphurea | Sulphur sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape province) |
| Crinitae | eastern ground protea | Protea foliosa | Leafy sugarbush | South Africa (Eastern Cape province) |
| Crinitae | eastern ground protea | Protea intonsa | Tufted sugarbush | South Africa (Swartberg and Kammanassie Mountains to the Baviaanskloof Mountains.) |
| Crinitae | eastern ground protea | Protea montana | Swartberg sugarbush | South Africa (Swartberg and Kammanassie Mountains.) |
| Crinitae | eastern ground protea | Protea tenax | Tenacious sugarbush | South Africa (Outeniqua, Tsitsikamma, Kouga and Winterhoek Mountains) |
| Crinitae | eastern ground protea | Protea vogtsiae | Kouga sugarbush | South Africa (Western and Eastern Cape) |
| Cristatae | Moorland protea | Protea asymmetrica | Inyanga sugarbush | Zimbabwe |
| Cristatae | Moorland protea | 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) |
| Exsertae | White protea | Protea aurea potbergensis | Potberg sugarbush | South Africa (Potberg near Cape Infanta.) |
| Exsertae | White protea | Protea lacticolor | Hottentot sugarbush | South Africa (the Slanghoek to the Hottentots Holland Mountains and also the Groenlandberg.) |
| Exsertae | White protea | Protea mundii | Forest sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape province) |
| Exsertae | White protea | Protea punctata | Water sugarbush | South Africa (Eastern and Western Cape province) |
| Exsertae | White protea | Protea subvestita | Waterlily sugarbush | South Africa (Eastern Cape province) |
| Exsertae | White protea | Protea venusta | Cascade sugarbush | South Africa (Clanwilliam to Grahamstown) |
| Hypocephalae | Rodent protea | Protea amplexicaulis | Claspingleaf sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape province) |
| Hypocephalae | Rodent protea | Protea cordata | Heartleaf sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape province) |
| Hypocephalae | Rodent protea | Protea decurrens | Linearleaf sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape province) |
| Hypocephalae | Rodent protea | Protea humiflora | Patentleaf sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape province) |
| Hypocephalae | Rodent protea | 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. |
| Lasiocephalae | savanna protea | 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 afra subsp. afra | Highveld sugerbush | South Africa (Gauteng, Kwazulu-Natal, Northern Province, Mpumalanga, the Eastern Cape as far south as the Katberg mountains) and Lesotho |
| Leiocephalea | grassveld protea | Protea afra subsp. gazensis | Manica sugarbush | Mozambique and Zimbabwe, including the Nyanga Mountains and Chimanimani Mountains, and on Mount Gorongosa in Mozambique. |
| Leiocephalea | grassveld protea | Protea afra subsp. kilimandscharica | Kilimanjaro sugarbush | Mt Kenya |
| Leiocephalea | grassveld protea | Protea afra subsp. nyasea | Malawi sugarbush | Malawi |
| Leiocephalea | grassveld protea | Protea dracomontana | Drakensberg sugarbush | South Africa (Eastern Cape, Lesotho, KwaZulu-Natal and Free State) |
| Leiocephalea | grassveld protea | Protea nubigena | Cloud sugarbush | South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal) |
| Leiocephalea | grassveld protea | Protea parvula | Dainty sugarbush | Mpumalanga |
| Leiocephalea | grassveld protea | Protea petiolaris elegans | Sickle-leaf sugarbush | Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
| Leiocephalea | grassveld protea | Protea petiolaris petiolaris | Sickle-leaf sugarbush | Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
| Leiocephalea | grassveld protea | Protea simplex | Dwarf grassveld sugarbush | South Africa (Eswatini and Mpumalanga) |
| Leiocephalea | shaving-brush protea | Protea caffra kilimandscharica | Kilimanjaro sugarbush | DRC, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda |
| Leiocephalea | shaving-brush protea | Protea caffra mafingensis | Mafingo sugarbush | Malawi and Zambia |
| Leiocephalea | shaving-brush protea | Protea rupicola | Krantz sugarbush | South Africa (Western and Eastern Cape) |
| Leiocephalea | shaving-brush protea | Protea glabra | Clanwilliam sugarbush | South Africa (Western cape) |
| Leiocephalea | shaving-brush protea | Protea inopina | Largenut sugarbush | Paleisheuwel |
| Leiocephalea | shaving-brush protea | Protea nitida | Wagon tree | South Africa (Eastern Cape) |
| Ligulatae | spoon-bract protea | Protea burchellii | Burchell's sugarbush | South Africa (Southwestern Cape) |
| Ligulatae | spoon-bract protea | Protea compacta | Bot river sugarbush | Kleinmond to Bredasdorp Mountains South Africa |
| Ligulatae | spoon-bract protea | Protea eximia | Broadleaf sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape) |
| Ligulatae | spoon-bract protea | Protea longifolia | Longleaf sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape) |
| Ligulatae | spoon-bract protea | Protea obtusifolia | Limestone sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape) |
| Ligulatae | spoon-bract protea | Protea pudens | Bashful sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape) |
| Ligulatae | spoon-bract protea | Protea roupelliae hamiltonii | Dwarf silver sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape), Zimbabwe |
| Ligulatae | spoon-bract protea | Protea roupelliae roupelliae | Silver sugarbush | Clanwilliam to Grahamstown, South Africa. |
| Ligulatae | spoon-bract protea | Protea susannae | Stinkleaf sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape) |
| Melliferae | sugerbushes | Protea aristata | Ladismith sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape) |
| Melliferae | sugerbushes | Protea lanceolata | Lanceleaf sugarbush | South Africa |
| Melliferae | sugerbushes | Protea repens | Common sugarbush | South Africa |
| Microgeantae | western ground protea | Protea acaulos | Common ground sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape) |
| Microgeantae | western ground protea | Protea convexa | Largeleaf sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape) |
| Microgeantae | western ground protea | Protea laevis | Smoothleaf sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape) |
| Microgeantae | western ground protea | Protea revoluta | Rolledleaf sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape) |
| Microgeantae | western ground protea | 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) |
| Paracynaroides | sneeu protea | Protea pruinosa | Frosted sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape province) |
| Paracynaroides | sneeu protea | Protea scabriuscula | Hoary sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape province) |
| Paracynaroides | sneeu protea | Protea scolopendriifolia | Hart's tonguefern sugarbush | South Africa (Western and Eastern Cape province) |
| Parviflorae | shale protea | Protea mucronifolia | Daggerleaf sugarbush | South Africa |
| Parviflorae | shale protea | Protea odorata | Swartland sugarbush | South Africa |
| Patentiflorae | mountain protea | Protea angolensis angolensis | Dwarf northernwoodland sugarbush | northern, central and eastern Zimbabwe |
| Patentiflorae | mountain protea | 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) |
| Patentiflorae | mountain protea | Protea comptonii | Saddleback sugarbush | South Africa (Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal) |
| Patentiflorae | mountain protea | Protea curvata | Barberton sugarbush | South Africa |
| Patentiflorae | mountain protea | Protea laetans | Blyde sugarbush | South Africa (Mpumalanga) |
| Patentiflorae | mountain protea | 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. |
| Patentiflorae | mountain protea | Protea rubropilosa | Transvaal sugarbush | South Africa (Mpumalanga and Limpopo) |
| Patentiflorae | mountain protea | Protea rupestris | Rocket sugarbush | Malawi, Mozambique, Angola and Tanzania |
| Pinifolia | rose protea | Protea acuminata | Blackrim sugarbush | South Africa |
| Pinifolia | rose protea | Protea canaliculata | Grooveleaf sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape province) |
| Pinifolia | rose protea | Protea nana | Mountainrose sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape province) |
| Pinifolia | rose protea | Protea pityphylla | Ceres sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape province) |
| Pinifolia | rose protea | Protea scolymocephala | Thistle sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape province) |
| Pinifolia | rose protea | 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) |
| Speciosae | bearded sugerbush | Protea grandiceps | Red sugarbush | South Africa (Cape Peninsula, Hottentots-Holland Mountains, Riviersonderend Mountains, Langeberg, Outeniqua Mountains, Winterhoek Mountains and Kamanassie Mountains) |
| Speciosae | bearded sugerbush | Protea holosericea | Sawedge sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape) |
| Speciosae | bearded sugerbush | Protea laurifolia | Greyleaf sugarbush | South Africa (Northern and Western Cape) |
| Speciosae | bearded sugerbush | Protea lepidocarpodendron | Blackbeard sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape) |
| Speciosae | bearded sugerbush | Protea lorifolia | Strapleaf sugarbush | South Africa (Swartberg, Riviersonderend and Langeberg Mountains, to the Baviaanskloofberge and Kouga Mountains.) |
| Speciosae | bearded sugerbush | Protea magnifica | Queen protea | South Africa (Western Cape) |
| Speciosae | bearded sugerbush | Protea neriifolia | Narrowleaf sugarbush | South Africa (Eastern and Western Cape) |
| Speciosae | bearded sugerbush | Protea speciosa | Brownbeard sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape) |
| Speciosae | bearded sugerbush | 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.) |
| Subacaules | dwarf-tufted protea | Protea denticulata | Toothleaf sugarbush | South Africa |
| Subacaules | dwarf-tufted protea | Protea lorea | Thongleaf sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape) |
| Subacaules | dwarf-tufted protea | Protea piscina | Visgat sugarbush | South Africa |
| Subacaules | dwarf-tufted protea | Protea restionifolia | Reedleaf sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape province) |
| Subacaules | dwarf-tufted protea | Protea scabra | Sandpaperleaf sugarbush | South Africa (Hottentots Holland Mountains across the Riviersonderend Mountains, the Kleinrivier Mountains and around the town of Caledon to the Swartberg Mountains) |
| Subacaules | dwarf-tufted protea | Protea scorzonerifolia | Channelleaf sugarbush | South Africa (Western Cape) |