Cuatresia riparia(Kunth) Hunz.

WFO wfo-0001021085 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Cuatresia riparia, photographed by Thalia M. Mite
fig. a Thalia M. Mite, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-26 / obs. 200728621
Cuatresia riparia, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. b Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 7474577
Cuatresia riparia, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. c Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 7474573
Cuatresia riparia, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. d Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 7474570
Cuatresia riparia, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. e Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 7474579
Cuatresia riparia, photographed by Thalia M. Mite
fig. f Thalia M. Mite, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200728671
Cuatresia riparia, photographed by Thalia M. Mite
fig. g Thalia M. Mite, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200728705

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Cuatresia riparia is native: Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panamá, Venezuela ColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorGuatemalaPanamáVenezuela
Native distribution of Cuatresia riparia, 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
Ecuador ECU
Guatemala GUA
Panamá PAN
Venezuela VEN

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 23 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.

  • Athenaea physocalycia (Donn.Sm.) Standl. & Steyerm.
  • Bassovia calceolarioides Rusby
  • Brachistus lindenii (Dunal) Pittier
  • Brachistus oblongifolius Miers
  • Brachistus physocalycius Donn.Sm.
  • Brachistus riparius (Kunth) Miers
  • Capsicum lindenii (Dunal) Kuntze
  • Capsicum oblongifolium (Miers) Kuntze
  • Capsicum riparium (Humb., Bonpl. & Kunth) Kuntze
  • Cuatresia physocalycia (Donn.Sm.) Hunz.
  • Cuatresia riparia var. riparia
  • Dunalia riparia (Kunth) Benítez
  • Fregirardia lindenii Dunal
  • Fregirardia riparia (Kunth) Dunal
  • Lycianthes oligantha Standl.
  • Lycianthes valerii C.V.Morton & Standl.
  • Solanum davidsoniae Standl.
  • Solanum mortonianum Standl.
  • Witheringia folliculoides D'Arcy & J.L.Gentry
  • Witheringia lindenii (Dunal) Steyerm.
  • Witheringia physocalycia (Donn.Sm.) J.L.Gentry
  • Witheringia physocalycia (Donn.Sm.) J.L.Gentry
  • Witheringia riparia Kunth

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.