Croton nitrariifoliusBaill.

WFO wfo-0000931822 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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 nitrariifolius, photographed by Florencia Grattarola
fig. a Florencia Grattarola, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-04 / obs. 174878704
Croton nitrariifolius, photographed by Florencia Grattarola
fig. b Florencia Grattarola, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174879786
Croton nitrariifolius, photographed by Florencia Grattarola
fig. c Florencia Grattarola, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174879751

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Croton nitrariifolius is native: Brazil South, Uruguay Brazil SouthUruguay
Native distribution of Croton nitrariifolius, 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
Brazil South BZS SOUTHERN AMERICA
Uruguay URU

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 20 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.

  • Codonocalyx divaricatus Klotzsch
  • Codonocalyx polymorphus Klotzsch
  • Codonocalyx velleriflorus Klotzsch
  • Croton codonocalyx Baill.
  • Croton nitrariaefolius var. arechavaletae Herter
  • Croton nitrariaefolius var. genuinus Müll.Arg.
  • Croton nitrariaefolius var. velleriflorus Müll.Arg.
  • Croton nitrariifolius var. divaricatus Müll.Arg.
  • Croton nitrariifolius var. genuinus Müll.Arg.
  • Croton nitrariifolius var. polymorphus (Müll.Arg.) Müll.Arg.
  • Croton nitrariifolius var. tenerrimus Herter
  • Croton polymorphus Müll.Arg.
  • Croton polymorphus var. glabrescens Müll.Arg.
  • Croton polymorphus var. velleriflorus (Baill.) Müll.Arg.
  • Croton velleriflorus Baill.
  • Hendecandra divaricata Klotzsch
  • Hendecandra glabrescens Klotzsch
  • Hendecandra polymorpha Klotzsch
  • Hendecandra velleriflora Klotzsch
  • Oxydectes nitrariifolia (Baill.) 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.

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.