Erythroxylum macrophyllumCav.

WFO wfo-0000679955 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 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.

Erythroxylum macrophyllum, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. a Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2016-07-02 / obs. 60760982
Erythroxylum macrophyllum, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. b Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 60760994
Erythroxylum macrophyllum, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. c Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 60760999
Erythroxylum macrophyllum, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. d Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 60761013

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Erythroxylum macrophyllum is native: Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela, Windward Is. Mexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáPeruSurinameVenezuela Windward Is.
Native distribution of Erythroxylum macrophyllum, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN
Mexico Gulf MXG NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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.

  • Erythroxylum costaricense Donn.Sm.
  • Erythroxylum durum S.Moore
  • Erythroxylum ellipticum Ramírez
  • Erythroxylum filipes Huber
  • Erythroxylum floribundum Seem.
  • Erythroxylum floribundum Mart.
  • Erythroxylum laurinum Triana & Planch.
  • Erythroxylum lucidum Kunth
  • Erythroxylum lucidum var. costaricense (Donn.Sm.) O.E.Schulz
  • Erythroxylum lucidum var. lucidum
  • Erythroxylum macrocnemium Mart.
  • Erythroxylum multiflorum Lundell
  • Erythroxylum rubrinerve Bong. ex O.E.Schulz
  • Erythroxylum skutchii Standl.
  • Erythroxylum spectabile Bong. ex O.E.Schulz
  • Erythroxylum tabascense Britton

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.