Ceiba samauma(Mart.) K.Schum.

WFO wfo-0000592608 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC0 / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 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 samauma, photographed by Sidnei Dantas
fig. a Sidnei Dantas, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-01-14 / obs. 110146761
Ceiba samauma, photographed by Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros
fig. b Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros, CC0 1.0 / obs. 58673873
Ceiba samauma, photographed by Sidnei Dantas
fig. c Sidnei Dantas, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 110146731

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Ceiba samauma is native: Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru BoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaEcuadorParaguayPeru
Native distribution of Ceiba samauma, 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 Northeast BZE
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER

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 9 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.

  • Bombax samauma (Mart.) Spreng.
  • Campylanthera samauma (Mart.) Schott
  • Ceiba burchellii K.Schum.
  • Ceiba phaeosantha (Decne. ex Rivière) K.Schum.
  • Eriodendron phaeosanthum Decne. ex Rivière
  • Eriodendron samauma Mart.
  • Xylon burchellii (K.Schum.) Kuntze
  • Xylon phaeosanthum (Decne. ex Rivière) Kuntze
  • Xylon samauma (Mart.) 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.