Arachis repensHandro

creeping peanut

WFO wfo-0000174388 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Arachis repens, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. a Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / 2015-03-20 / obs. 44513131
Arachis repens, photographed by Heather DeGaetano
fig. b Heather DeGaetano, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201928985
Arachis repens, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. c Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 194460704
Arachis repens, photographed by Elliot Greiner
fig. d Elliot Greiner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181592931
Arachis repens, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. e Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 98607104
Arachis repens, photographed by Tamberly Conway
fig. f Tamberly Conway, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 35016195
Arachis repens, photographed by Dan Killam
fig. g Dan Killam, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32185993
Arachis repens, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. h Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 98609071

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Arachis repens is native: Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central Brazil NortheastBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-Central
Native distribution of Arachis repens, 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
Brazil Northeast BZE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC

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.

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol ARRE15. public domain. 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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