Brahea dulcis(Kunth) Mart.

WFO wfo-0000390644 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Brahea dulcis, photographed by Tereso Hernández Morales
fig. a Tereso Hernández Morales, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-20 / obs. 189731269
Brahea dulcis, photographed by Tereso Hernández Morales
fig. b Tereso Hernández Morales, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189363311
Brahea dulcis, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. c Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186863943
Brahea dulcis, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. d Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186859597
Brahea dulcis, photographed by Leticia Jiménez Hernández
fig. e Leticia Jiménez Hernández, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 146519252
Brahea dulcis, photographed by Francisco Martínez González
fig. f Francisco Martínez González, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 127764335
Brahea dulcis, photographed by Francisco Martínez González
fig. g Francisco Martínez González, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 70455406
Brahea dulcis, photographed by Francisco Martínez González
fig. h Francisco Martínez González, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 62569660

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Brahea dulcis is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SouthwestBelizeGuatemalaHondurasNicaragua
Native distribution of Brahea dulcis, 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
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southwest MXS
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC

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 14 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.

  • Acoelorraphe schippii (Burret) Dahlgren
  • Brahea bella L.H.Bailey
  • Brahea berlandieri Bartlett
  • Brahea conzattii Bartlett
  • Brahea dulcis f. humilis Miranda
  • Brahea dulcis var. montereyensis (Becc.) Becc.
  • Brahea edulis var. montereyensis Becc.
  • Brahea frigida Devansaye
  • Brahea schippii Burret
  • Copernicia depressa Liebm. ex Dalgren
  • Corypha dulcis Kunth
  • Corypha frigida Mohl ex Mart.
  • Livistona occidentalis Hook.f.
  • Thrinax tunica hort. ex Hook.f.

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.

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.