Cassipourea elliptica(Sw.) Poir.

WFO wfo-0000589612 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Cassipourea elliptica, photographed by ritirene
fig. a ritirene, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-17 / obs. 164709375
Cassipourea elliptica, photographed by ritirene
fig. b ritirene, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164709382
Cassipourea elliptica, photographed by ritirene
fig. c ritirene, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164719289
Cassipourea elliptica, photographed by ritirene
fig. d ritirene, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164719299
Cassipourea elliptica, photographed by ritirene
fig. e ritirene, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164719310

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Cassipourea elliptica is native: Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Belize, Brazil North, Central American Pacific Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is. Mexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastBelizeBrazil NorthCentral American Pacific Is.ColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicFrench GuianaGuatemalaHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáPuerto RicoSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela Leeward Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Cassipourea elliptica, 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
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North BZN
Central American Pacific Is. CPI
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Puerto Rico PUE
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN
Mexico Gulf MXG NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT

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.

  • Cassipourea alba Griseb.
  • Cassipourea belizensis Lundell
  • Cassipourea brittoniana Fawc. & Rendle
  • Cassipourea cubensis Urb.
  • Cassipourea elliptica var. alba (Griseb.) Griseb.
  • Cassipourea elliptica var. ovata Griseb.
  • Cassipourea elliptica var. parvifolia Stehlé
  • Cassipourea elliptica var. pauciserrata Griseb.
  • Cassipourea elliptica var. typica Stehlé
  • Cassipourea guianensis var. elliptica (Sw.) M.Gómez
  • Cassipourea guildingii Briq.
  • Cassipourea macrodonta Standl.
  • Cassipourea podantha Standl.
  • Endosteira oppositifolia Turcz.
  • Legnotis elliptica Sw.

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.