Crossopetalum parviflorum(Hemsl.) Lundell

WFO wfo-0000626464 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.

Crossopetalum parviflorum, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. a Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / 2003-03-21 / obs. 1676498
Crossopetalum parviflorum, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. b Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18695361
Crossopetalum parviflorum, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. c Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 13920684
Crossopetalum parviflorum, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. d Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18695373
Crossopetalum parviflorum, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. e Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 13920677
Crossopetalum parviflorum, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. f Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18695340

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
01538584
Filed as
Crossopetalum parviflorum (Hemsl.) Lundell
Det. by
F. R. Barrie 2014-01-01
Collected
R. Kriebel 2011-06-14
Origin
GT
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Crossopetalum parviflorum is native: Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru Mexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeCosta RicaGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáPeru
Native distribution of Crossopetalum parviflorum, 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
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Costa Rica COS
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Mexico Gulf MXG NORTHERN AMERICA
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.

Also published as 7 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.

  • Crossopetalum eucymosum (Loes. & Pittier) Lundell
  • Euonymus parviflorus Hemsl.
  • Microtropis parviflora (Hemsl.) Sprague
  • Myginda eucymosa Loes. & Pittier
  • Myginda parviflora (Hemsl.) Loes.
  • Rhacoma eucymosa (Loes. & Pittier) Standl.
  • Rhacoma parviflora (Hemsl.) Lundell

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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