Gaylussacia brasiliensis(Spreng.) Meisn.

WFO wfo-0000695686 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Gaylussacia brasiliensis, photographed by Márcia Martins
fig. a Márcia Martins, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-04-22 / obs. 37412729
Gaylussacia brasiliensis, photographed by Márcia Martins
fig. b Márcia Martins, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 37412606
Gaylussacia brasiliensis, photographed by JG
fig. c JG, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175376030
Gaylussacia brasiliensis, photographed by JG
fig. d JG, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175376040

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
00943223
Filed as
Gaylussacia brasiliensis var. pubescens (Cham. & Schltdl.) Meisn.
Det. by
L. S. K. Gouvea 1978-01-01
Collected
H. S. Irwin 1964-09-06
Origin
BR
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. We link to the digitised sheet rather than rehosting it, because the holding institutions do not serve their images to third parties reliably and we are not going to show you a picture we cannot actually deliver. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Gaylussacia brasiliensis is native: Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Paraguay Brazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralParaguay
Native distribution of Gaylussacia 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
Brazil Northeast BZE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Paraguay PAR

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 87 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 6.4 °C 14.3 °C 19.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.0 °C 26.7 °C 29.5 °C
Annual rainfall 1,280 mm 1,796 mm 2,404 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 20 mm 294 mm 374 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 87 research-grade observations of Gaylussacia 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 36 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.

  • Adnaria adenochaeta (DC.) Kuntze
  • Adnaria brasiliensis (Spreng.) Kuntze
  • Adnaria nitida (Mart.) Kuntze
  • Adnaria vauthieri (Meisn.) Kuntze
  • Agarista ciliata (DC.) Hook. ex Nied.
  • Agarista coccinea (Schrad.) Hook. ex Nied.
  • Andromeda candida Vell.
  • Andromeda ciliata (DC.) Nees
  • Andromeda coccinea Schrad.
  • Brossaea candida Kuntze
  • Gaultheria candida (Vell.) DC.
  • Gaylussacia adenochaeta DC.
  • Gaylussacia brasiliensis var. cuneata Meisn.
  • Gaylussacia brasiliensis var. maximiliani Meisn.
  • Gaylussacia brasiliensis var. myrtifolia (Cham.) Meisn.
  • Gaylussacia brasiliensis var. oblongifolia Meisn.
  • Gaylussacia brasiliensis var. obovata Meisn.
  • Gaylussacia brasiliensis var. ovalifolia Meisn.
  • Gaylussacia brasiliensis var. parvifolia Meisn.
  • Gaylussacia brasiliensis var. sellowii Meisn.
  • Gaylussacia brasiliensis var. subevenia Meisn.
  • Gaylussacia discolor Dunal
  • Gaylussacia imbricata Pohl
  • Gaylussacia myrtifolia Cham.

and 12 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.