Bessera elegans

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Bessera elegans, photographed by Dayan Romero — fig. b Dayan Romero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18159946

Bessera elegans, photographed by Juan Antonino Sandoval — fig. c Juan Antonino Sandoval, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 93641573

Bessera elegans, photographed by Abraham Sánchez Romero — fig. d Abraham Sánchez Romero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 140804372

Bessera elegans, photographed by Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña — fig. e Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 86461440

Bessera elegans, photographed by Eugenio Padilla — fig. g Eugenio Padilla, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 9822728

Bessera elegans, photographed by Leonardo O. Alvarado Cárdenas — fig. h Leonardo O. Alvarado Cárdenas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60164948

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Native distribution of Bessera elegans, 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
Mexico Central	MXC	NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Northeast	MXE
Mexico Northwest	MXN
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 207 in flower of 222 examined

93%

91%

97%

93%

100%

Proportion of examined Bessera elegans in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	1	1	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	1	1	too few examined
Apr	0	0	too few examined
May	1	2	too few examined
Jun	14	15	93%	70% to 99%
Jul	96	105	91%	85% to 95%
Aug	35	36	97%	86% to 100%
Sep	40	43	93%	81% to 98%
Oct	15	15	100%	80% to 100%
Nov	3	3	too few examined
Dec	1	1	too few examined

Peak flowering in Oct. Each bar is the share of Bessera elegans 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. 207 of 222 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 7 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.

Bessera fistulosa (Herb.) Pritz.
Bessera herbertii G.Don
Bessera miniata Lem.
Bessera multiflora M.Martens & Galeotti
Pharium elegans (Schult.f.) Steud.
Pharium fistulosum Herb.
Pharium herbertii (G.Don) Steud.

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.
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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