Alonsoa meridionalis(L.f.) Kuntze

WFO wfo-0000527248 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Alonsoa meridionalis, photographed by Ben Lyle Bedard
fig. a Ben Lyle Bedard, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-31 / obs. 166665527
Alonsoa meridionalis, photographed by Francisco E. Fonturbel
fig. b Francisco E. Fonturbel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165701719
Alonsoa meridionalis, photographed by Javier Conejeros Gastó
fig. c Javier Conejeros Gastó, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163472152
Alonsoa meridionalis, photographed by Bruno Avilez
fig. d Bruno Avilez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162478490
Alonsoa meridionalis, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. e Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144774198
Alonsoa meridionalis, photographed by Cesar Ormazabal
fig. f Cesar Ormazabal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168993691
Alonsoa meridionalis, photographed by sandy-espinozaf
fig. g sandy-espinozaf, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108416085
Alonsoa meridionalis, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. h Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106592794

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Alonsoa meridionalis is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Bolivia, Chile Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBoliviaChile CentralColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorGuatemalaHondurasPanamáPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Alonsoa meridionalis, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Chile Central CLC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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.

Flowering 163 in flower of 179 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Alonsoa meridionalis observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 163 of 179 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 39 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.

  • Alonsoa albiflora G.Nicholson
  • Alonsoa compacta Voss
  • Alonsoa grandiflora Voss
  • Alonsoa incisa Voss
  • Alonsoa incisifolia Ruiz & Pav.
  • Alonsoa incisifolia var. angustifolia López Guillén
  • Alonsoa incisifolia var. incisifolia
  • Alonsoa incisifolia var. latifolia Benth.
  • Alonsoa incissaefolia var. latifolia Benth.
  • Alonsoa meridionalis var. carnea Kuntze
  • Alonsoa meridionalis var. cinnabarina Kuntze
  • Alonsoa meridionalis var. crocea Kuntze
  • Alonsoa meridionalis var. flava Kuntze
  • Alonsoa meridionalis var. lactea Diels
  • Alonsoa meridionalis var. meridionalis
  • Alonsoa meridionalis var. micans Kuntze
  • Alonsoa meridionalis var. rubra Kuntze
  • Alonsoa mutisii Steud.
  • Alonsoa mutisii (Kunth) G.Don
  • Alonsoa myrtifolia Roezl
  • Alonsoa parviflora (Kunth) Steud.
  • Alonsoa parviflora (Kunth) G.Don
  • Alonsoa peruviana López Guillén
  • Alonsoa procumbens Ruiz & Pav.

and 15 more.

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. 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.