Cranichis wageneriRchb.f.

WFO wfo-0000926698 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.

Cranichis wageneri, photographed by Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez
fig. a Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-11-20 / obs. 105032753
Cranichis wageneri, photographed by Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez
fig. b Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105032780
Cranichis wageneri, photographed by Ismael Cortés Casanova
fig. c Ismael Cortés Casanova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193069203
Cranichis wageneri, photographed by Thibaud Aronson
fig. d Thibaud Aronson, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 149814343
Cranichis wageneri, photographed by Ismael Cortés Casanova
fig. e Ismael Cortés Casanova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193069090
Cranichis wageneri, photographed by Thibaud Aronson
fig. f Thibaud Aronson, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 149814327
Cranichis wageneri, photographed by desertnaturalist
fig. g desertnaturalist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133841026
Cranichis wageneri, photographed by desertnaturalist
fig. h desertnaturalist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133847565

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Cranichis wageneri is native: Mexico Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela Mexico SoutheastColombiaCosta RicaDominican RepublicEl SalvadorGuatemalaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Cranichis wageneri, 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
Dominican Republic DOM
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN
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.

Also published as 3 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.

  • Cranichis costaricensis Schltr.
  • Cranichis pilosa Fawc. & Rendle
  • Cranichis subcordata Schltr.

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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