Grausa lateritia(Gillies ex Arn.) Weigend & R.H.Acuña

WFO wfo-0001421764 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Grausa lateritia, photographed by Nicolás Lavandero
fig. a Nicolás Lavandero, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-02-19 / obs. 68255574
Grausa lateritia, photographed by Nicolás Lavandero
fig. b Nicolás Lavandero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 68255466
Grausa lateritia, photographed by Nicolás Lavandero
fig. c Nicolás Lavandero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 68255391
Grausa lateritia, photographed by Nicolás Lavandero
fig. d Nicolás Lavandero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 68255295
Grausa lateritia, photographed by Nicolás Lavandero
fig. e Nicolás Lavandero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 68255672

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.

The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 1342684
Filed as
Grausa lateritia (Gillies ex Arn.) Weigend & R.H.Acuña
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
F. W. Pennell 1925-01-29
Origin
CL
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. 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 herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Grausa lateritia is native: Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Chile Central Argentina NorthwestArgentina SouthChile Central
Native distribution of Grausa lateritia, 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 Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina South AGS
Chile Central CLC

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 4 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.

  • Loasa acaulis Urb. & Gilg
  • Loasa laciniata Phil.
  • Loasa lateritia Gillies ex Arn.
  • Raphisanthe lateritia (Gillies ex Arn.) Lilja

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.