Calycera herbaceaCav.

WFO wfo-0000581846 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.

Calycera herbacea, photographed by Nicolás Lavandero
fig. a Nicolás Lavandero, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-27 / obs. 179215472
Calycera herbacea, photographed by Mike Slater
fig. b Mike Slater, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183115245
Calycera herbacea, photographed by aacocucci
fig. c aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 64665996
Calycera herbacea, photographed by Guillermo Debandi
fig. d Guillermo Debandi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29524158
Calycera herbacea, photographed by Guillermo Debandi
fig. e Guillermo Debandi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29521375
Calycera herbacea, photographed by Nicolás Lavandero
fig. f Nicolás Lavandero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179215476
Calycera herbacea, photographed by Mike Slater
fig. g Mike Slater, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183115401
Calycera herbacea, photographed by Darío De la Fuente
fig. h Darío De la Fuente, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174771586

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Calycera herbacea is native: Argentina Northwest, Chile Central, Chile North Argentina NorthwestChile CentralChile North
Native distribution of Calycera herbacea, 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 Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Chile Central CLC
Chile North CLN

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 15 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.

  • Calycera cavanillesii Rich.
  • Calycera crenata R.E.Fr.
  • Calycera herbacea var. viridiflora (Phil.) Pontiroli
  • Calycera intermedia Phil.
  • Calycera involucrata Phil.
  • Calycera nudicaulis Phil.
  • Calycera nudicaulis Phil. ex Miers
  • Calycera pulvinata f. cauligera
  • Calycera pulvinata f. crenata Hicken
  • Calycera sinuata Miers
  • Calycera squarrosa Miers
  • Calycera viridiflora (Phil.) Miers
  • Calycera viridiflora f. sinuata (Miers) Hicken
  • Calycera viridiflora f. squarrosa Hicken
  • Gymnocaulus viridiflorus Phil.

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.