Allophylus racemosusSw.

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WFO wfo-0000526834 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Allophylus racemosus, photographed by Helio Lourencini
fig. a Helio Lourencini, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-20 / obs. 185055360
Allophylus racemosus, photographed by Helio Lourencini
fig. b Helio Lourencini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185055319
Allophylus racemosus, photographed by Helio Lourencini
fig. c Helio Lourencini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92221267
Allophylus racemosus, photographed by Helio Lourencini
fig. d Helio Lourencini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185055393
Allophylus racemosus, photographed by Helio Lourencini
fig. e Helio Lourencini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92221285
Allophylus racemosus, photographed by Helio Lourencini
fig. f Helio Lourencini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185055432
Allophylus racemosus, photographed by Helio Lourencini
fig. g Helio Lourencini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185055445
Allophylus racemosus, photographed by Helio Lourencini
fig. h Helio Lourencini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92221255

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
01008743
Filed as
Allophylus racemosus Sw.
Det. by
R. L. G. Coelho 2012-01-01
Collected
E. L. Little Jr. 1950-07-27
Origin
PR
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 24 botanical countries

Regions where Allophylus racemosus is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Windward Is. Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico SoutheastBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaGuyanaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáPuerto RicoVenezuela Leeward Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Allophylus racemosus, 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
Brazil North BZN SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Puerto Rico PUE
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN
Mexico Central MXC 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 12 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.

  • Allophylus occidentalis Radlk.
  • Allophylus occidentalis f. genuinus Radlk.
  • Allophylus occidentalis f. mollis Radlk.
  • Allophylus occidentalis f. velutinus Radlk.
  • Allophylus racemosus subsp. racemosus
  • Allophylus sericeus Radlk.
  • Ornitrophe occidentalis Willd.
  • Schmidelia inaequilatera Mart.
  • Schmidelia occidentalis Sw.
  • Schmidelia sericea Cambess.
  • Schmidelia unguicularis Turcz.
  • Schmidelia velutina Turcz.

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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