Dorstenia ramosa(Desv.) Carauta, C.Valente & Sucre

WFO wfo-0000654615 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

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.

Dorstenia ramosa, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. a Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-01 / obs. 140498094
Dorstenia ramosa, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. b Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116335317
Dorstenia ramosa, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. c Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 140498047
Dorstenia ramosa, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. d Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116335333
Dorstenia ramosa, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. e Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 140498131
Dorstenia ramosa, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. f Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116335357
Dorstenia ramosa, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. g Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116209794
Dorstenia ramosa, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. h Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116209806

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Dorstenia ramosa is native: Brazil Southeast Brazil Southeast
Native distribution of Dorstenia ramosa, 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 Southeast BZL SOUTHERN 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 16 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.

  • Dorstenia capricorniana Carauta, C.Valente & Sucre
  • Dorstenia ceratosanthes G.Lodd.
  • Dorstenia ceratosanthes f. integrifolia Wawra
  • Dorstenia ceratosanthes var. dissidens Pilg.
  • Dorstenia ceratosanthes var. riedeliana Fisch. ex Regel
  • Dorstenia ceratosanthes var. triloba Regel
  • Dorstenia dolichocaula Pilg.
  • Dorstenia dolichocaula var. dissidens Pilg.
  • Dorstenia ficus Vell.
  • Dorstenia multiformis var. ceratosanthes (Lodd.) Bureau
  • Dorstenia multiformis var. ficifolia Bureau
  • Dorstenia multiformis var. ramosa (Desv.) Bureau
  • Dorstenia ramosa subsp. ramosa
  • Dorstenia ramosa var. ficus (Vell.) Carauta
  • Dorstenia sychinium Steud.
  • Sychinium ramosum Desv.

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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