Casearia decandraJacq.

wild honeytree

WFO wfo-0000923925 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs 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.

Casearia decandra, photographed by Kurt Miller
fig. a Kurt Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-03 / obs. 202999963
Casearia decandra, photographed by ritirene
fig. b ritirene, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164465768
Casearia decandra, photographed by russiannaturalistbrazil
fig. c russiannaturalistbrazil, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 37937
Casearia decandra, photographed by Kurt Miller
fig. d Kurt Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 202999984
Casearia decandra, photographed by russiannaturalistbrazil
fig. e russiannaturalistbrazil, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 37938
Casearia decandra, photographed by ritirene
fig. f ritirene, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142782058
Casearia decandra, photographed by ritirene
fig. g ritirene, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164465791
Casearia decandra, photographed by ritirene
fig. h ritirene, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142782093

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Native range 23 botanical countries

Regions where Casearia decandra is native: Argentina Northeast, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Haiti, Honduras, Leeward Is., Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, Windward Is. Argentina NortheastBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaDominican RepublicEcuadorFrench GuianaHaitiHondurasPanamáParaguayPeruPuerto RicoSurinameTrinidad-TobagoUruguayVenezuela Leeward Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Casearia decandra, 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 Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Leeward Is. LEE
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Uruguay URU
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN

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 121 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 8.1 °C 19.9 °C 23.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 25.1 °C 28.2 °C 30.9 °C
Annual rainfall 1,303 mm 1,800 mm 2,432 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 37 mm 283 mm 403 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 121 research-grade observations of Casearia decandra 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 20 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.

  • Anavinga parvifolia Lam.
  • Casearia adamantium Cambess.
  • Casearia adstringens Mart.
  • Casearia albicaulis Rusby
  • Casearia floribunda Briq.
  • Casearia micrantha G.Don
  • Casearia nitida Sieber ex Griseb.
  • Casearia parviflora Jacq.
  • Casearia parviflora var. microphylla Schltdl.
  • Casearia parvifolia Willd.
  • Casearia parvifolia var. paraguariensis Briq.
  • Casearia pavoniana Sleumer
  • Casearia reflexa Sleumer
  • Casearia serrulata Sieber ex Griseb.
  • Chaetocrater reflexus Ruiz & Pav.
  • Guidonia adstringens (Mast.) Baill.
  • Guidonia parvifolia M.Gómez
  • Samyda decandra Jacq.
  • Samyda lancifolia Sessé & Moc.
  • Samyda parvifolia Poir.

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.