Faramea multifloraA.Rich. ex DC.

WFO wfo-0000966765 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 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.

Faramea multiflora, photographed by Attila Oláh
fig. a Attila Oláh, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-20 / obs. 189496574
Faramea multiflora, photographed by Daniel Levitis
fig. b Daniel Levitis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105507975
Faramea multiflora, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. c Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 60666185
Faramea multiflora, photographed by Attila Oláh
fig. d Attila Oláh, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189496684
Faramea multiflora, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. e Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 60666176
Faramea multiflora, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. f Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 60666196
Faramea multiflora, photographed by Attila Oláh
fig. g Attila Oláh, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189496864

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Faramea multiflora is native: Mexico Gulf, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela Mexico GulfBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorFrench GuianaGuyanaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáPeruSurinameVenezuela
Native distribution of Faramea multiflora, 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 South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guyana GUY
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Gulf MXG 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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 52 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 13.1 °C 19.5 °C 22.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.9 °C 30.4 °C 32.1 °C
Annual rainfall 1,441 mm 3,113 mm 4,010 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 95 mm 243 mm 432 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 52 research-grade observations of Faramea multiflora that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

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.

  • Coffea umbellata Vell.
  • Coussarea multiflora (A.Rich. ex DC.) Lemée
  • Faramea amazonica Müll.Arg.
  • Faramea angustifolia Benth. & Hook.f. ex Müll.Arg.
  • Faramea benensis Rusby
  • Faramea cuatrecasasii Standl. ex Steyerm.
  • Faramea egensis Müll.Arg.
  • Faramea laxula K.Krause
  • Faramea maynensis Spruce ex Rusby
  • Faramea multiflora var. amazonica (Müll.Arg.) Steyerm.
  • Faramea multiflora var. benensis (Rusby) Steyerm.
  • Faramea multiflora var. epedunculata Steyerm.
  • Faramea multiflora var. maynensis (Spruce ex Rusby) Steyerm.
  • Faramea multiflora var. multiflora
  • Faramea multiflora var. salicifolia (C.Presl) Steyerm.
  • Faramea parviflora Müll.Arg.
  • Faramea phyllonomoides Standl.
  • Faramea salicifolia C.Presl
  • Faramea salicifolia f. paniculata Kuntze
  • Faramea salicifolia f. subumbellata Kuntze
  • Faramea talamancarum Standl.
  • Faramea talamancarum f. acutifolia Dwyer
  • Psychotria cyanea Vell.

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.