Ardisia pellucidaOerst.

WFO wfo-0000544880 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 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.

Ardisia pellucida, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. a Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-24 / obs. 176377076
Ardisia pellucida, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. b Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176377603
Ardisia pellucida, photographed by Anthony Batista
fig. c Anthony Batista, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 146167785
Ardisia pellucida, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. d Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176377112
Ardisia pellucida, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. e Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176377074

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Ardisia pellucida is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Ardisia pellucida, 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
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
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.

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.

  • Amatlania pectinata (Donn.Sm.) Lundell
  • Amatlania pellucida (Oerst.) Lundell
  • Amatlania pellucida var. myriodonta (Standl.) Lundell
  • Amatlania pellucida var. pectinata (Donn.Sm.) Lundell
  • Ardisia myriodonta Standl.
  • Ardisia pectinata Donn.Sm.
  • Ardisia pellucida var. pectinata (Donn.Sm.) Lundell
  • Icacorea pectinata Standl.
  • Icacorea pellucida (Oerst.) Standl.
  • Tinus pellucida (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.