Forestiera rhamnifoliaGriseb.

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WFO wfo-0000832160 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.

Forestiera rhamnifolia, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. a Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-31 / obs. 167231733
Forestiera rhamnifolia, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. b Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32937358
Forestiera rhamnifolia, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. c Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29299428
Forestiera rhamnifolia, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. d Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28814544
Forestiera rhamnifolia, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. e Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167231397
Forestiera rhamnifolia, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. f Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32937345
Forestiera rhamnifolia, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. g Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29299424
Forestiera rhamnifolia, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. h Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28814550

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Forestiera rhamnifolia is native: Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico, Windward Is. Mexico GulfMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeCosta RicaCubaEl SalvadorGuatemalaHaitiHondurasJamaicaPuerto Rico Leeward Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Forestiera rhamnifolia, 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
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Puerto Rico PUE
Windward Is. WIN
Mexican Pacific Is. MXI NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

Not drawn on the map: Mexican Pacific Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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.

  • Adelia rhamnifolia (Griseb.) Kuntze
  • Forestiera rhamnifolia subsp. pilosa (Stearn) P.A.González
  • Forestiera rhamnifolia var. martinicensis Krug & Urb.
  • Forestiera rhamnifolia var. pilosa Stearn
  • Forestiera rhamnifolia var. rhamnifolia

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.