Geonoma cuneataH.Wendl. ex Spruce

WFO wfo-0000972069 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 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.

Geonoma cuneata, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. a Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / 2012-12-16 / obs. 81613284
Geonoma cuneata, photographed by keesgroenendijk
fig. b keesgroenendijk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99881389
Geonoma cuneata, photographed by Zac Peterson
fig. c Zac Peterson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105553465
Geonoma cuneata, photographed by keesgroenendijk
fig. d keesgroenendijk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99881427

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Geonoma cuneata is native: Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panamá, Venezuela ColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorNicaraguaPanamáVenezuela
Native distribution of Geonoma cuneata, 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
Colombia CLM SOUTHERN AMERICA
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Venezuela VEN

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 14 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.

  • Geonoma compacta Linden
  • Geonoma cuneata var. cuneata
  • Geonoma cuneata var. gracilis (H.Wendl. ex Spruce) Skov ex Govaerts & J.Dransf.
  • Geonoma cuneata var. procumbens (H.Wendl. ex Spruce) Skov ex Govaerts & J.Dransf.
  • Geonoma cuneata var. sodiroi (Dammer ex Burret) Skov ex Govaerts & J.Dransf.
  • Geonoma cuneatoidea Burret
  • Geonoma decurrens H.Wendl. ex Burret
  • Geonoma gibbosa Burret
  • Geonoma gracilis H.Wendl. ex Spruce
  • Geonoma irena Borchs.
  • Geonoma linearis Burret
  • Geonoma obovata H.Wendl. ex Spruce
  • Geonoma procumbens H.Wendl. ex Spruce
  • Geonoma sodiroi Dammer ex Burret

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.