Chamaedorea linearis(Ruiz & Pav.) Mart.

WFO wfo-0000838539 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 3 separate observations

Chamaedorea linearis, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. a Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / 2015-07-08 / obs. 74057060
Chamaedorea linearis, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. b Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75593371
Chamaedorea linearis, photographed by GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ
fig. c GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 21840470

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Chamaedorea linearis is native: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela BoliviaColombiaEcuadorPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Chamaedorea linearis, 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
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN

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 28 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.

  • Chamaedorea corallina (H.Karst.) Hook.f.
  • Chamaedorea eburnea G.Nicholson
  • Chamaedorea formosa W.Bull
  • Chamaedorea latisecta (H.E.Moore) A.H.Gentry
  • Chamaedorea megaphylla A.H.Gentry
  • Chamaedorea poeppigiana (Mart.) A.H.Gentry
  • Chamaedorea polyclada Burret
  • Kunthia montana Bonpl.
  • Martinezia linearis Ruiz & Pav.
  • Morenia caudata Burret
  • Morenia corallina H.Karst.
  • Morenia fragrans Ruiz & Pav.
  • Morenia latisecta H.E.Moore
  • Morenia lindeniana H.Wendl.
  • Morenia linearis (Ruiz & Pav.) Burret
  • Morenia macrocarpa Burret
  • Morenia microspadix Burret
  • Morenia montana (Humb. & Bonpl.) Burret
  • Morenia poeppigiana Mart.
  • Morenia robusta Burret
  • Nunnezharia corallina (H.Karst.) Kuntze
  • Nunnezharia eburnea (G.Nicholson) Kuntze
  • Nunnezharia formosa (W.Bull) Kuntze
  • Nunnezharia lindeniana (H.Wendl.) Kuntze

and 4 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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