Combretum fruticosum(Loefl.) Stuntz

WFO wfo-0000616307 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Combretum fruticosum, photographed by Sebastián Gómez Barboza Silveira
fig. a Sebastián Gómez Barboza Silveira, CC0 1.0 / 2022-04-11 / obs. 187545312
Combretum fruticosum, photographed by Daniel Pineda Vera
fig. b Daniel Pineda Vera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60698674
Combretum fruticosum, photographed by Daniel Pineda Vera
fig. c Daniel Pineda Vera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60698636
Combretum fruticosum, photographed by amantedarmanin
fig. d amantedarmanin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38965324
Combretum fruticosum, photographed by Daniel Pineda Vera
fig. e Daniel Pineda Vera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29769015
Combretum fruticosum, photographed by Daniel Pineda Vera
fig. f Daniel Pineda Vera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29382168
Combretum fruticosum, photographed by Vincent A. Vos
fig. g Vincent A. Vos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118580829
Combretum fruticosum, photographed by Erick Vélez Sánchez
fig. h Erick Vélez Sánchez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184872592

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Native range 28 botanical countries

Regions where Combretum fruticosum is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Argentina Northeast, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestArgentina NortheastBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaGuyanaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruTrinidad-TobagoUruguayVenezuela
Native distribution of Combretum fruticosum, 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
Belize BLZ
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Uruguay URU
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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 34 in flower of 37 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Combretum fruticosum 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. 34 of 37 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 10 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 24 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.

  • Combretum aurantiacum Benth.
  • Combretum benthamianum Van Heurck & Müll.Arg.
  • Combretum farinosum var. phaenopetala Donn.Sm.
  • Combretum formosum G.Don
  • Combretum gloriosum Rusby
  • Combretum lepidopetalum Pittier
  • Combretum loeflingii Eichler
  • Combretum loeflingii subsp. ornithophilum Suess.
  • Combretum micropetalum DC.
  • Combretum multidiscum Rusby
  • Combretum occidentale L.
  • Combretum oxypetalum G.Don
  • Combretum phaenopetalum (Donn.Sm.) Pittier
  • Combretum reticulatum C.Presl
  • Combretum secundum Jacq.
  • Combretum superbum Pittier
  • Combretum tetragonum C.Presl
  • Combretum tetragonum Presl ex Steud.
  • Combretum trinitense Britton
  • Combretum wandurraganum R.E.Schult.
  • Combretum warszewiczianum Eichler
  • Gaura fruticosa Loefl.
  • Gaura laxa Loefl.
  • Poivrea phaneropetala (Donn.Sm.) H.Perrier

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.