Barleria oenotheroidesDum.Cours.

WFO wfo-0000560448 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Barleria oenotheroides, photographed by Leticia Jiménez Hernández
fig. a Leticia Jiménez Hernández, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-01-03 / obs. 176086192
Barleria oenotheroides, photographed by Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez
fig. b Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114377114
Barleria oenotheroides, photographed by Aitor
fig. c Aitor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61861241
Barleria oenotheroides, photographed by Dario Taraborelli
fig. d Dario Taraborelli, CC0 1.0 / obs. 31917245
Barleria oenotheroides, photographed by Viacheslav Shalisko
fig. e Viacheslav Shalisko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 17592900
Barleria oenotheroides, photographed by J. L. Gómez-Hechavarría
fig. f J. L. Gómez-Hechavarría, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118130607
Barleria oenotheroides, photographed by Jose Antonio Aranda Pineda
fig. g Jose Antonio Aranda Pineda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 1506925
Barleria oenotheroides, photographed by Tereso Hernández Morales
fig. h Tereso Hernández Morales, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 8470117

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Native range 24 botanical countries

Regions where Barleria oenotheroides is native: Central African Republic, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Venezuela Central African RepublicGhanaGuineaGuinea-BissauIvory CoastLiberiaNigeriaSenegalSierra LeoneMexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeColombiaCosta RicaEl SalvadorGuatemalaGuyanaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáVenezuela
Native distribution of Barleria oenotheroides, 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
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Venezuela VEN
Central African Republic CAF AFRICA
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Guinea-Bissau GNB
Ivory Coast IVO
Liberia LBR
Nigeria NGA
Senegal SEN
Sierra Leone SIE
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.

Flowering 61 in flower of 64 examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Barleria oenotheroides observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 61 of 64 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 17 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.

  • Barleria afzelii Lindau
  • Barleria discolor Nees
  • Barleria flava J.Jacq.
  • Barleria gentianoides Desf. ex Nees
  • Barleria micans Nees
  • Barleria senegalensis Nees
  • Barleriopsis discolor (Nees) Oerst.
  • Barleriopsis glandulosa Oerst.
  • Barleriopsis glandulosa var. breviflora Oerst.
  • Barleriopsis glandulosa var. brevifolia Oerst.
  • Barleriopsis micans (Nees) Oerst.
  • Barleriopsis micans var. brachystachya Oerst.
  • Eranthemum cristatum Humb. & Bonpl. ex Spreng. & Link
  • Eranthemum flavum Willd.
  • Justicia lutea Sessé & Moc.
  • Justicia oxyphylla DC. ex Nees
  • Justicia serrata Humb. ex Nees

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.

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