Bourreria havanensisMiers

smooth strongbark

WFO wfo-0000569970 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Bourreria havanensis, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. a Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-09 / obs. 175437408
Bourreria havanensis, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. b Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175437427
Bourreria havanensis, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. c Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175437439
Bourreria havanensis, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. d Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175437458
Bourreria havanensis, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. e Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175437467

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Bourreria havanensis is native: Florida, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti FloridaCubaDominican RepublicHaiti
Native distribution of Bourreria havanensis, 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
Cuba CUB SOUTHERN AMERICA
Dominican Republic DOM
Haiti HAI
Florida FLA NORTHERN AMERICA

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 11 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.

  • Bourreria cassinifolia Griseb.
  • Bourreria montana C.Wright
  • Bourreria montana f. glabrifolia Griseb.
  • Bourreria tomentosa var. havanensis (Roem. & Schult.) Griseb.
  • Bourreria urbanii O.E.Schulz
  • Ehretia cassinefolia A.Rich.
  • Ehretia cassinifolia A.Rich.
  • Ehretia havanensis Roem. & Schult.
  • Ehretia tomentosa var. havanensis M.Gómez
  • Morelosia cassinifolia Kuntze
  • Morelosia havanensis 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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol BOCA4. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.