Ardisia nigropunctataOerst.

WFO wfo-0000544773 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Ardisia nigropunctata, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. a Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2018-03-07 / obs. 14462289
Ardisia nigropunctata, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. b Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 14462308
Ardisia nigropunctata, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. c Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 14462316

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Ardisia nigropunctata is native: Mexico Southeast, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá Mexico SoutheastBelizeCosta RicaGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaPanamá
Native distribution of Ardisia nigropunctata, 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
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Costa Rica COS
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Mexico Southeast MXT NORTHERN 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 10 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.

  • Ardisia chontalensis Mez
  • Ardisia mammosa Lundell
  • Ardisia moraviana (Lundell) Lundell
  • Ardisia quadrata (Lundell) J.F.Morales
  • Auriculardisia chontalensis (Mez) Lundell
  • Auriculardisia mammosa (Lundell) Lundell
  • Auriculardisia moraviana Lundell
  • Auriculardisia nigropunctata (Oerst.) Lundell
  • Auriculardisia quadratus Lundell
  • Tinus nigropunctatus (Oerst.) Kuntze

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.