Cojoba rufescens(Benth.) Britton & Rose

WFO wfo-0000171355 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

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.

Cojoba rufescens, photographed by Sue Carnahan
fig. a Sue Carnahan, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-08 / obs. 177254030
Cojoba rufescens, photographed by Kai Squires
fig. b Kai Squires, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65494753
Cojoba rufescens, photographed by Sue Carnahan
fig. c Sue Carnahan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177254044

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Cojoba rufescens is native: Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Panamá ColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorHondurasPanamá
Native distribution of Cojoba rufescens, 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
Colombia CLM SOUTHERN AMERICA
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
Honduras HON
Panamá PAN

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 23 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.

  • Cojoba glabra Britton & Rose
  • Cojoba rufescens var. rufescens
  • Cojoba tubulifera (Benth.) Britton & Rose
  • Cojoba tubulifera (Benth.) Britton
  • Cojoba undulatomarginata L.Rico
  • Feuilleea billbergiana (Benth.) Kuntze
  • Feuilleea darienensis (Seem.) Kuntze
  • Feuilleea dariensis (Seem.) Kuntze
  • Feuilleea globulifera (Benth.) Kuntze
  • Feuilleea rufescens (Benth.) Kuntze
  • Feuilleea tubulifera (Benth.) Kuntze
  • Inga billbergiana Benth.
  • Inga dariensis Seem.
  • Inga globulifera Benth.
  • Inga rufescens Benth.
  • Inga tubulifera Benth.
  • Pithecellobium davidsoniae Standl.
  • Pithecellobium glabrum (Britton & Rose) Standl.
  • Pithecellobium rufescens (Benth.) Pittier
  • Pithecellobium rufescens var. rufescens
  • Pithecellobium rufescens var. vallense Schery
  • Pithecellobium tubuliferum (Benth.) Pittier
  • Pithecolobium davidsoniae Standl.

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.