Arachis hypogaea (peanut)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Arachis hypogaea, photographed by lazarus — fig. a lazarus, CC BY 4.0 / 2016-04-04 / obs. 73455725

Arachis hypogaea, photographed by Nico Hernandez — fig. b Nico Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 85813121

Arachis hypogaea, photographed by Elisa Coghlan — fig. c Elisa Coghlan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 139071005

Arachis hypogaea, photographed by Karim Haddad — fig. d Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56943461

Arachis hypogaea, photographed by Mattia Menchetti — fig. e Mattia Menchetti, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24552156

Arachis hypogaea, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng — fig. f Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 26727836

Arachis hypogaea, photographed by Rich Sommer — fig. h Rich Sommer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73950216

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Native range 1 botanical country

Native distribution of Arachis hypogaea, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Bolivia	BOL	SOUTHERN AMERICA

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 22 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.

Arachidna hypogaea (L.) Moench
Arachidna quadrifolia Trew
Arachis africana Lour.
Arachis americana Ten.
Arachis asiatica Lour.
Arachis guaraniana Bertoni
Arachis hypogaea f. nambyquarae (Hoehne) F.J.Herm.
Arachis hypogaea f. typica Hoehne
Arachis hypogaea subsp. fastigiata Waldron
Arachis hypogaea subsp. nambyquarae (Hoehne) A.Chev.
Arachis hypogaea subsp. oleifera A.Chev.
Arachis hypogaea subsp. procumbens Waldron
Arachis hypogaea var. aequatoriana Krapov. & W.C.Greg.
Arachis hypogaea var. hirsuta Köhler
Arachis hypogaea var. hypogaea
Arachis hypogaea var. nambyquarae (Hoehne) Burkart
Arachis hypogaea var. peruviana Krapov. & W.C.Greg.
Arachis hypogaea var. vulgaris Harz
Arachis nambyquarae Hoehne
Arachis oleifera A.Chev.
Arachis rasteiro A.Chev.
Lathyrus esquirolii H.Lév.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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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