Distimake aturensis(Kunth) A.R.Simões & Staples

WFO wfo-0001424450 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0 / 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.

Distimake aturensis, photographed by Tsssss
fig. a Tsssss, CC0 1.0 / 2020-07-07 / obs. 93361171
Distimake aturensis, photographed by lazarus
fig. b lazarus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75376023
Distimake aturensis, photographed by Morten Ross
fig. c Morten Ross, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201370799
Distimake aturensis, photographed by Tsssss
fig. d Tsssss, CC0 1.0 / obs. 93361141
Distimake aturensis, photographed by Morten Ross
fig. e Morten Ross, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201370882
Distimake aturensis, photographed by Tsssss
fig. f Tsssss, CC0 1.0 / obs. 93361203

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 3577073
Filed as
Distimake aturensis (Kunth) A.R.Simões & Staples
Det. by
Strong, Mark T., (BOT), Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of Natural History (UNITED STATES)
Collected
J. Betancur 1990-01-30
Origin
CO
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

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 11 botanical countries

Regions where Distimake aturensis is native: Mexico Southeast, Belize, Brazil North, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Nicaragua, Suriname, Venezuela Mexico SoutheastBelizeBrazil NorthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaFrench GuianaGuyanaNicaraguaSurinameVenezuela
Native distribution of Distimake aturensis, 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
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
French Guiana FRG
Guyana GUY
Nicaragua NIC
Suriname SUR
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 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.

  • Convolvulus aturensis Kunth
  • Ipomoea aphylla Standl.
  • Ipomoea aturensis (Kunth) G.Don
  • Ipomoea juncea Choisy
  • Merremia aturensis (Kunth) Hallier f.

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.