Fridericia chica(Bonpl.) L.G.Lohmann

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WFO wfo-0000778859 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Fridericia chica, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. a Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / 2014-01-26 / obs. 114406605
Fridericia chica, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg
fig. b Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 170993630
Fridericia chica, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. c Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179290894
Fridericia chica, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. d Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114406713
Fridericia chica, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. e Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163866959
Fridericia chica, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. f Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 21038521
Fridericia chica, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. g Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 21035549
Fridericia chica, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. h Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24615281

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Native range 28 botanical countries

Regions where Fridericia chica is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Argentina Northeast, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is. Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestArgentina NortheastBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorEl SalvadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruPuerto RicoTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela Leeward Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Fridericia chica, 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
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Belize BLZ
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 46 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 12.3 °C 15.0 °C 22.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 28.0 °C 30.5 °C 32.9 °C
Annual rainfall 1,017 mm 1,418 mm 2,399 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 12 mm 44 mm 284 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 46 research-grade observations of Fridericia chica 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 26 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.

  • Adenocalymma portoricense A.Stahl ex Bello
  • Adenocalymma portoricensis A.Stahl
  • Arrabidaea acutifolia DC.
  • Arrabidaea chica (Bonpl.) Verl.
  • Arrabidaea chica f. cuprea (Cham.) Sandwith
  • Arrabidaea chica var. acutifolia (DC.) Bureau
  • Arrabidaea chica var. angustifolia Bureau & K.Schum.
  • Arrabidaea chica var. cuprea Bureau & K.Schum.
  • Arrabidaea chica var. thyrsoidea (DC.) Bureau
  • Arrabidaea cuprea (Cham.) Bornm.
  • Arrabidaea cuprea Pittier
  • Arrabidaea larensis Pittier
  • Arrabidaea rosea DC.
  • Bignonia chica Bonpl.
  • Bignonia cuprea Cham.
  • Bignonia cuprea var. grandiflora Cham.
  • Bignonia cuprea var. parviflora Cham.
  • Bignonia rosea DC.
  • Bignonia rubescens S.Moore
  • Bignonia rufescens DC.
  • Bignonia thyrsoidea DC.
  • Bignonia triphylla L.
  • Bignonia triphylla Willd. ex DC.
  • Lundia chica (Bonpl.) Seem.

and 2 more.

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol ARCH5. public domain. 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.