Galianthe brasiliensis(Spreng.) E.L.Cabral & Bacigalupo

WFO wfo-0000968130 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Galianthe brasiliensis, photographed by Bahiano Ayala
fig. a Bahiano Ayala, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-03 / obs. 189082011
Galianthe brasiliensis, photographed by Andrea Gantzer
fig. b Andrea Gantzer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107881178
Galianthe brasiliensis, photographed by Bahiano Ayala
fig. c Bahiano Ayala, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189082029
Galianthe brasiliensis, photographed by RAP
fig. d RAP, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 83149082
Galianthe brasiliensis, photographed by RAP
fig. e RAP, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 83149086
Galianthe brasiliensis, photographed by Adriel Magnetti
fig. f Adriel Magnetti, CC0 1.0 / obs. 188782352
Galianthe brasiliensis, photographed by Adriel Magnetti
fig. g Adriel Magnetti, CC0 1.0 / obs. 188782377
Galianthe brasiliensis, photographed by Cristiane Colodel
fig. h Cristiane Colodel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107881424

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Galianthe brasiliensis is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Argentina Northeast, Belize, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastArgentina NortheastBelizeBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralCosta RicaGuatemalaHondurasParaguayPeruUruguay
Native distribution of Galianthe brasiliensis, 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
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Belize BLZ
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Costa Rica COS
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Uruguay URU
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT

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 113 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 6.4 °C 8.3 °C 12.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.7 °C 27.1 °C 31.1 °C
Annual rainfall 1,099 mm 1,176 mm 2,344 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 140 mm 179 mm 361 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 113 research-grade observations of Galianthe brasiliensis 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 25 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.

  • Bigelovia ramulosa Mart. ex Colla
  • Diodia anthospermoides Cham. & Schltdl.
  • Diodia brasiliensis Spreng.
  • Diodia brasiliensis var. angulata (Benth.) Standl.
  • Diodia brasiliensis var. microphylla (Cham. & Schltdl.) Standl.
  • Diodia erecta Sessé & Moc.
  • Diodia polymorpha Cham. & Schltdl.
  • Diodia polymorpha var. angulata (Benth.) K.Schum.
  • Diodia polymorpha var. anthospermoides (Cham. & Schltdl.) K.Schum.
  • Diodia polymorpha var. densa Zahlbr.
  • Diodia polymorpha var. floribunda K.Schum.
  • Diodia polymorpha var. lasiodisca K.Schum.
  • Diodia polymorpha var. macrophylla Cham. & Schltdl.
  • Diodia polymorpha var. microphylla Cham. & Schltdl.
  • Galianthe angulata (Benth.) Borhidi
  • Spermacoce ambigua Brandegee
  • Triodon angulatum Benth.
  • Triodon anthospermoides (Cham. & Schltdl.) DC.
  • Triodon glomeratus DC.
  • Triodon polymorphum (Cham. & Schltdl.) DC.
  • Triodon polymorphum var. macrophyllum (Cham. & Schltdl.) DC.
  • Triodon polymorphum var. microphyllum (Cham. & Schltdl.) DC.
  • Triodon polymorphus var. intermedius DC.
  • Triodon polymorphus var. macrophyllus (Cham. & Schltdl.) DC.

and 1 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. 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.