Brunfelsia uniflora(Pohl) D.Don

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WFO wfo-0001019912 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, 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.

Brunfelsia uniflora, photographed by Pieter Huybrechts
fig. a Pieter Huybrechts, CC0 1.0 / 2019-09-09 / obs. 50862847
Brunfelsia uniflora, photographed by alessandradalia
fig. b alessandradalia, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 26058329
Brunfelsia uniflora, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. c Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 46537312
Brunfelsia uniflora, photographed by Pieter Huybrechts
fig. d Pieter Huybrechts, CC0 1.0 / obs. 50862866
Brunfelsia uniflora, photographed by alessandradalia
fig. e alessandradalia, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 26058288
Brunfelsia uniflora, photographed by alessandradalia
fig. f alessandradalia, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 26057544
Brunfelsia uniflora, photographed by Magucination Guzmán
fig. g Magucination Guzmán, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 15926316
Brunfelsia uniflora, photographed by Magucination Guzmán
fig. h Magucination Guzmán, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 15926083

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Brunfelsia uniflora is native: Argentina Northwest, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Guyana, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles Argentina NorthwestBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralGuyanaTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela Venezuelan Antilles
Native distribution of Brunfelsia uniflora, 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
Argentina Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Guyana GUY
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA

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.

  • Brunfelsia hopeana (Hook.) Benth.
  • Brunfelsia hopeana var. hopeana
  • Brunfelsia hopeana var. pubescens Benth.
  • Brunfelsia mutabilis (H.Jacquin) Vilm.
  • Brunfelsia mutabilis Poit.
  • Brunfelsia uniflora
  • Brunfelsia uniflora f. uniflora
  • Brunfelsia uniflora var. pubescens (Benth.) Baker
  • Brunfelsia uniflora var. uniflora
  • Franciscea hopeana Hook.
  • Franciscea mutabilis H.Jacquin
  • Franciscea mutabilis hort. ex Regel
  • Franciscea uniflora Pohl
  • Martia opifera Lacerda ex J.A.Schmidt

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. 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.