Centropogon cornutus(L.) Druce

WFO wfo-0000829584 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Centropogon cornutus, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. a Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-28 / obs. 153799787
Centropogon cornutus, photographed by Dan Riley
fig. b Dan Riley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 48816641
Centropogon cornutus, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. c Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113808250
Centropogon cornutus, photographed by Steven Bodzin
fig. d Steven Bodzin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31152365
Centropogon cornutus, photographed by Oscar Marín
fig. e Oscar Marín, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 28760891
Centropogon cornutus, photographed by GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ
fig. f GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172333410
Centropogon cornutus, photographed by desertnaturalist
fig. g desertnaturalist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108902492
Centropogon cornutus, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. h Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185899029

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Native range 17 botanical countries

Regions where Centropogon cornutus is native: Mexico Southeast, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Leeward Is., Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is. Mexico SoutheastBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaEcuadorFrench GuianaGuyanaPanamáPeruSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela Leeward Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Centropogon cornutus, 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
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guyana GUY
Leeward Is. LEE
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN
Mexico Southeast MXT NORTHERN AMERICA

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.

Flowering 59 in flower of 62 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Centropogon cornutus observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 59 of 62 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 35 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.

  • Centropogon andropogon (Cav.) DC.
  • Centropogon bonplandianus (Schult.) C.Presl
  • Centropogon bonplandianus f. glabrescens E.Wimm.
  • Centropogon bonplandianus var. intermedius (Zahlbr.) E.Wimm.
  • Centropogon cornutus f. leucanthus E.Wimm.
  • Centropogon cornutus f. leucostomus E.Wimm.
  • Centropogon cornutus f. vellozianus E.Wimm.
  • Centropogon cornutus f. ynesae E.Wimm.
  • Centropogon cornutus var. angustifolius (Zahlbr.) E.Wimm.
  • Centropogon cornutus var. intermedius (Zahlbr.) E.Wimm.
  • Centropogon cornutus var. laevigatus (L.f.) E.Wimm.
  • Centropogon edulis C.Presl
  • Centropogon fastuosum H.Jacq.
  • Centropogon fastuosus Scheidw.
  • Centropogon fastuosus Decne.
  • Centropogon intermedius Zahlbr.
  • Centropogon laevigatus (L.f.) DC.
  • Centropogon oblongus Benth.
  • Centropogon puerilis E.Wimm.
  • Centropogon surinamensis (L.) C.Presl
  • Centropogon surinamensis var. angustifolius Zahlbr.
  • Centropogon surinamensis var. vestitus Pilg.
  • Lobelia andropogon Cav.
  • Lobelia bonplandiana Roem. & Schult.

and 11 more.

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.

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