Croton billbergianusMüll.Arg.

WFO wfo-0000927459 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 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.

Croton billbergianus, photographed by Martín Sánchez Vilchis
fig. a Martín Sánchez Vilchis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2017-08-11 / obs. 9700751
Croton billbergianus, photographed by Andres Hernandez
fig. b Andres Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191421839
Croton billbergianus, photographed by Martín Sánchez Vilchis
fig. c Martín Sánchez Vilchis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 9700756
Croton billbergianus, photographed by Andres Hernandez
fig. d Andres Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191421831
Croton billbergianus, photographed by Andres Hernandez
fig. e Andres Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191421492
Croton billbergianus, photographed by Bruno de Medeiros
fig. f Bruno de Medeiros, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194796313
Croton billbergianus, photographed by Bruno de Medeiros
fig. g Bruno de Medeiros, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194796284
Croton billbergianus, photographed by Bruno de Medeiros
fig. h Bruno de Medeiros, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194796260

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Croton billbergianus is native: Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá Mexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeColombiaCosta RicaGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaPanamá
Native distribution of Croton billbergianus, 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
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Mexico Gulf MXG NORTHERN AMERICA
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 5 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.

  • Croton billbergianus subsp. billbergianus
  • Croton billbergianus subsp. pyramidalis (Donn.Sm.) G.L.Webster
  • Croton grosseri Pax
  • Croton pyramidalis Donn.Sm.
  • Oxydectes billbergiana Kuntze

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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