Bauhinia divaricataL.

WFO wfo-0000183531 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Bauhinia divaricata, photographed by Ricard Busquets Reverte
fig. a Ricard Busquets Reverte, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-10 / obs. 185363591
Bauhinia divaricata, photographed by Brian Oakes Haiti Hunter
fig. b Brian Oakes Haiti Hunter, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180096217
Bauhinia divaricata, photographed by Francisco Emilio Roldán Velasco
fig. c Francisco Emilio Roldán Velasco, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176320514
Bauhinia divaricata, photographed by marique
fig. d marique, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161967202
Bauhinia divaricata, photographed by marique
fig. e marique, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161967156
Bauhinia divaricata, photographed by caymanmatt
fig. f caymanmatt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159162133
Bauhinia divaricata, photographed by Tereso Hernández Morales
fig. g Tereso Hernández Morales, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 134818258
Bauhinia divaricata, photographed by novvictan
fig. h novvictan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120627633

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Bauhinia divaricata is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Cayman Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Southwest Caribbean Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEl SalvadorGuatemalaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaSouthwest Caribbean Cayman Is.Leeward Is.
Native distribution of Bauhinia divaricata, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Cayman Is. CAY
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Southwest Caribbean SWC
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
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 132 in flower of 141 examined

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Bauhinia divaricata 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. 132 of 141 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 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 48 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.

  • Bauhinia amblyophylla Harms
  • Bauhinia americana Delaun.
  • Bauhinia americana Loisel.
  • Bauhinia americana Laun.
  • Bauhinia aurita Aiton
  • Bauhinia caribaea Jennings
  • Bauhinia caribaea Jenn.
  • Bauhinia confusa Rose
  • Bauhinia divaricata Lam.
  • Bauhinia divaricata var. angustiloba Ekman ex Urb.
  • Bauhinia furcata Desv.
  • Bauhinia goldmanii Rose
  • Bauhinia lamarckiana DC.
  • Bauhinia latifolia Cav.
  • Bauhinia mexicana Vogel
  • Bauhinia oaxacana (Britton) Standl.
  • Bauhinia peninsularis Brandegee
  • Bauhinia porrecta Sw.
  • Bauhinia racemifera Desf.
  • Bauhinia retusa Poir.
  • Bauhinia schlechtendaliana M.Martens & Galeotti
  • Bauhinia versicolor Bertol.
  • Casparea amblyophylla (Harms) Britton & Rose
  • Casparea aurita Griseb.

and 24 more.

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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