Bactris gasipaes (peach palm)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Bactris gasipaes, photographed by John G. Phillips — fig. a John G. Phillips, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-01-04 / obs. 59820004

Bactris gasipaes, photographed by Don Johnston — fig. b Don Johnston, CC0 1.0 / obs. 139066283

Bactris gasipaes, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning — fig. c Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73994671

Bactris gasipaes, photographed by Lena Struwe — fig. d Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 5902216

Bactris gasipaes, photographed by Diogo Luiz — fig. e Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99335807

Bactris gasipaes, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial — fig. g Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106515540

Bactris gasipaes, photographed by Steven Bodzin — fig. h Steven Bodzin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31153964

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Native distribution of Bactris gasipaes, 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
Brazil North	BZN
Brazil West-Central	BZC
Colombia	CLM
Costa Rica	COS
Ecuador	ECU
French Guiana	FRG
Honduras	HON
Nicaragua	NIC
Panamá	PAN
Peru	PER
Venezuela	VEN

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 32 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.

Bactris caribaea H.Karst.
Bactris ciliata (Ruiz & Pav.) Mart.
Bactris coccinea Barb.Rodr.
Bactris dahlgreniana Govaerts
Bactris dahlgreniana Glassman
Bactris insignis (Mart.) Baill.
Bactris macana (Mart.) Pittier
Bactris speciosa (Mart.) H.Karst.
Bactris speciosa var. chichagui H.Karst.
Bactris utilis (Oerst.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Hemsl.
Guilelma microcarpa Huber
Guilielma caribaea (H.Karst.) H.Wendl.
Guilielma chontaduro H.Karst. & Triana
Guilielma ciliata (Ruiz & Pav.) H.Wendl.
Guilielma gasipaes (Kunth) L.H.Bailey
Guilielma gasipaes var. chichagui (H.Karst.) Dahlgren
Guilielma gasipaes var. chontaduro (H.Karst. & Triana) Dugand
Guilielma gasipaes var. coccinea (Barb.Rodr.) L.H.Bailey
Guilielma gasipaes var. flava (Barb.Rodr.) L.H.Bailey
Guilielma gasipaes var. ochracea (Barb.Rodr.) L.H.Bailey
Guilielma insignis Mart.
Guilielma macana Mart.
Guilielma mattogrossensis Barb.Rodr.
Guilielma microcarpa Huber

and 8 more.

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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