Ceiba pubiflora(A.St.-Hil.) K.Schum.

WFO wfo-0000592597 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Ceiba pubiflora, photographed by vitordematos12
fig. a vitordematos12, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-08 / obs. 204966050
Ceiba pubiflora, photographed by vitordematos12
fig. b vitordematos12, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204966020
Ceiba pubiflora, photographed by Rafael Silva
fig. c Rafael Silva, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 129174058
Ceiba pubiflora, photographed by vitordematos12
fig. d vitordematos12, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204965962
Ceiba pubiflora, photographed by vitordematos12
fig. e vitordematos12, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204965999
Ceiba pubiflora, photographed by Rafael Silva
fig. f Rafael Silva, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 129174028

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Ceiba pubiflora is native: Argentina Northeast, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Paraguay Argentina NortheastBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralParaguay
Native distribution of Ceiba pubiflora, 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
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Paraguay PAR

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 14 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.

  • Ceiba fiebrigii Hochr.
  • Ceiba glaziovii f. transiens Chodat & Hassl.
  • Ceiba glaziovii var. glabriflora Chodat & Hassl.
  • Ceiba jaibana Ravenna
  • Ceiba pubiflora f. coaetanea Hassl.
  • Ceiba pubiflora f. grandiflora Hassl.
  • Ceiba pubiflora f. praecox Hassl.
  • Ceiba pubiflora f. transiens (Chodat & Hassl.) Hassl.
  • Ceiba pubiflora var. genuina Hassl.
  • Ceiba pubiflora var. glabriflora (Chodat & Hassl.) Hassl.
  • Chorisia pubiflora (A.St.-Hil.) G.Dawson
  • Chorisia pubiflora (A.St.-Hil.) Dawson
  • Eriodendron pubiflorum A.St.-Hil.
  • Xylon pubiflorum (A.St.-Hil.) Kuntze

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.