Cabralea canjerana(Vell.) Mart.

WFO wfo-0000577394 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 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.

Cabralea canjerana, photographed by Tomás Carranza Perales
fig. a Tomás Carranza Perales, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-18 / obs. 175583273
Cabralea canjerana, photographed by Diego Carús
fig. b Diego Carús, CC0 1.0 / obs. 163386146
Cabralea canjerana, photographed by Diego Carús
fig. c Diego Carús, CC0 1.0 / obs. 163386176
Cabralea canjerana, photographed by William G. Borges
fig. d William G. Borges, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105090686
Cabralea canjerana, photographed by William G. Borges
fig. e William G. Borges, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105090701
Cabralea canjerana, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg
fig. f Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 171071646

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
390499
Filed as
Cabralea canjerana subsp. canjerana
Det. by
T. D. Pennington 1979-01-01
Collected
R. Reitz 1956-10-25
Origin
BR
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Cabralea canjerana is native: Argentina Northeast, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru Argentina NortheastBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorFrench GuianaGuyanaParaguayPeru
Native distribution of Cabralea canjerana, 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
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guyana GUY
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 187 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 8.2 °C 11.5 °C 14.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.8 °C 27.6 °C 30.8 °C
Annual rainfall 1,516 mm 1,873 mm 2,376 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 41 mm 307 mm 460 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 187 research-grade observations of Cabralea canjerana that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 63 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.

  • Cabralea affinis A.Juss.
  • Cabralea brachystachya C.DC.
  • Cabralea burchellii C.DC.
  • Cabralea cangerana Saldanha
  • Cabralea canjerana subsp. canjerana
  • Cabralea cauliflora Harms
  • Cabralea clausseniana C.DC.
  • Cabralea comovadensis C.DC.
  • Cabralea coriacea C.DC.
  • Cabralea eichleriana C.DC.
  • Cabralea eichleriana var. macrantha C.DC.
  • Cabralea erismatica A.C.Sm.
  • Cabralea estrellensis C.DC.
  • Cabralea floribunda Harms
  • Cabralea gaudichaudii C.DC.
  • Cabralea glaberrima A.Juss.
  • Cabralea glaziovii C.DC.
  • Cabralea humilis C.DC.
  • Cabralea inaequilatera Casar.
  • Cabralea jussiaeana C.DC.
  • Cabralea lacaziana Rizzini
  • Cabralea laevis C.DC.
  • Cabralea lagoensis C.DC.
  • Cabralea lagoensis var. glabra C.DC.

and 39 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.

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.