Acoelorraphe wrightii(Griseb. & H.Wendl.) H.Wendl. ex Becc.

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WFO wfo-0000334949 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Acoelorraphe wrightii, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. a Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-09 / obs. 175437727
Acoelorraphe wrightii, photographed by Scott Allen Davis
fig. b Scott Allen Davis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172305215
Acoelorraphe wrightii, photographed by Elliot Greiner
fig. c Elliot Greiner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115789157
Acoelorraphe wrightii, photographed by Tom Field
fig. d Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112064788
Acoelorraphe wrightii, photographed by Tereso Hernández Morales
fig. e Tereso Hernández Morales, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 78621171
Acoelorraphe wrightii, photographed by Tereso Hernández Morales
fig. f Tereso Hernández Morales, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 78620893
Acoelorraphe wrightii, photographed by Valerie Anderson
fig. g Valerie Anderson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63146820
Acoelorraphe wrightii, photographed by Ben Machado
fig. h Ben Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30183735

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Acoelorraphe wrightii is native: Florida, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Bahamas, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Southwest Caribbean FloridaMexico GulfMexico SoutheastBelizeColombiaCosta RicaCubaGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaSouthwest Caribbean Bahamas
Native distribution of Acoelorraphe wrightii, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bahamas BAH SOUTHERN AMERICA
Belize BLZ
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Southwest Caribbean SWC
Florida FLA NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Southeast MXT

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Acanthosabal caespitosa Prosch.
  • Acoelorraphe arborescens (Sarg.) Becc.
  • Acoelorraphe pinetorum Bartlett
  • Acoelorraphe wrightii f. inermis Hadac
  • Acoelorraphe wrightii var. novogeronensis Becc.
  • Brahea psilocalyx Burret
  • Copernicia wrightii Griseb. & H.Wendl.
  • Paurotis androsana O.F.Cook
  • Paurotis arborescens (Sarg.) O.F.Cook
  • Paurotis psilocalyx (Burret) Lundell
  • Paurotis schippii Burret
  • Paurotis wrightii (Griseb. & H.Wendl.) Britton
  • Serenoa arborescens Sarg.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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