Cornutia pyramidataL.

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WFO wfo-0000924940 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Cornutia pyramidata, photographed by amantedarmanin
fig. a amantedarmanin, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-01-17 / obs. 33281935
Cornutia pyramidata, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. b Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18696175
Cornutia pyramidata, photographed by Skjold Søndergaard
fig. c Skjold Søndergaard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169815951
Cornutia pyramidata, photographed by Skjold Søndergaard
fig. d Skjold Søndergaard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169815971
Cornutia pyramidata, photographed by Skjold Søndergaard
fig. e Skjold Søndergaard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169815989
Cornutia pyramidata, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. f Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18696192

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Native range 27 botanical countries

Regions where Cornutia pyramidata is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Bolivia, Central American Pacific Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is. Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeBoliviaCentral American Pacific Is.ColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáPeruPuerto RicoSouthwest CaribbeanSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela Leeward Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Cornutia pyramidata, 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
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Central American Pacific Is. CPI
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Southwest Caribbean SWC
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
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.

Also published as 30 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.

  • Aegiphila acutangula Widgren ex Moldenke
  • Cornutia crenata Medik.
  • Cornutia divaricata L. ex Moldenke
  • Cornutia grandifolia (Cham. & Schltdl.) Schauer
  • Cornutia grandifolia f. quadrangularis (Oerst. ex Moldenke) Moldenke
  • Cornutia grandifolia var. intermedia Moldenke
  • Cornutia grandifolia var. normalis Moldenke
  • Cornutia grandifolia var. purpusii Moldenke
  • Cornutia grandifolia var. quadrangularis Oerst. ex Moldenke
  • Cornutia grandifolia var. storkii Moldenke
  • Cornutia latifolia (Kunth) Moldenke
  • Cornutia latifolia f. alba Moldenke
  • Cornutia lilacina Moldenke
  • Cornutia lilacina var. velutina Moldenke
  • Cornutia longifolia (Kunth) Spreng.
  • Cornutia microcalycina Pav. ex Moldenke
  • Cornutia microcalycina var. anomala Moldenke
  • Cornutia microcalycina var. pulverulenta Moldenke
  • Cornutia pyramidata f. albida Moldenke
  • Cornutia pyramidata f. serrata Moldenke
  • Cornutia pyramidata var. dentata Kuntze
  • Cornutia pyramidata var. isthmica Moldenke
  • Cornutia pyramidata var. longifolia Kuntze
  • Cornutia pyramidata var. normalis Kuntze

and 6 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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.