Carpotroche longifolia(Poepp.) Benth.

WFO wfo-0000923787 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 3 separate observations

Carpotroche longifolia, photographed by dhfischer
fig. a dhfischer, CC BY 4.0 / 2010-01-20 / obs. 97720220
Carpotroche longifolia, photographed by desertnaturalist
fig. b desertnaturalist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 39202572
Carpotroche longifolia, photographed by Steven Whitebread
fig. c Steven Whitebread, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168954605

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Carpotroche longifolia is native: Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panamá, Peru, Suriname BoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil SoutheastColombiaEcuadorFrench GuianaGuyanaPanamáPeruSuriname
Native distribution of Carpotroche longifolia, 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
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Southeast BZL
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guyana GUY
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Suriname SUR

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 107 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 17.1 °C 20.2 °C 22.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.6 °C 29.3 °C 30.3 °C
Annual rainfall 2,013 mm 3,205 mm 5,050 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 148 mm 478 mm 880 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 107 research-grade observations of Carpotroche longifolia 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 8 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.

  • Carpotroche linguifolia (R.E.Schult.) Cuatrec.
  • Carpotroche longifolia var. heliocarpa (R.E.Schult.) Cuatrec.
  • Carpotroche longifolia var. phasmatocarpa (R.E.Schult.) Cuatrec.
  • Mayna linguifolia R.E.Schult.
  • Mayna longifolia Poepp.
  • Mayna longifolia var. heliocarpa R.E.Schult.
  • Mayna longifolia var. phasmatocarpa R.E.Schult.
  • Mayna muricida R.E.Schult.

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.