Drymonia coccinea(Aubl.) Wiehler

WFO wfo-0000657410 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Drymonia coccinea, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. a Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-17 / obs. 181101857
Drymonia coccinea, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. b Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170484698
Drymonia coccinea, photographed by B. Phalan
fig. c B. Phalan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169264928
Drymonia coccinea, photographed by greenline
fig. d greenline, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81808403
Drymonia coccinea, photographed by Ileana Herrera
fig. e Ileana Herrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 35593018
Drymonia coccinea, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. f Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110045166
Drymonia coccinea, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. g Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177047138
Drymonia coccinea, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. h Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177051526

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Drymonia coccinea is native: Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela BoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaEcuadorFrench GuianaGuyanaPeruSurinameVenezuela
Native distribution of Drymonia coccinea, 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
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guyana GUY
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
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.

Flowering 37 in flower of 39 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Drymonia coccinea observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 37 of 39 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 18 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.

  • Alloplectus circinatus Mart.
  • Alloplectus circinnatus Mart.
  • Alloplectus coccineus (Aubl.) Mart.
  • Alloplectus coccineus var. fusco-maculatus Leeuwenb.
  • Alloplectus patrisii Miq. ex Decne.
  • Alloplectus patrisii DC.
  • Besleria coccinea Aubl.
  • Columnea circinata (Mart.) Kuntze
  • Columnea circinnata (Mart.) Kuntze
  • Columnea coccinea (Aubl.) Kuntze
  • Columnea patrisii (DC.) Kuntze
  • Crantzia circinata (Mart.) Fritsch
  • Crantzia circinnata (Mart.) Fritsch
  • Crantzia coccinea (Aubl.) Fritsch
  • Crantzia patrisii (DC.) Fritsch
  • Lophalix coccinea (Aubl.) Raf.
  • Macrochlamys miquelii Decne.
  • Macrochlamys patrisii (DC.) Decne.

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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