Guapira opposita

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Guapira opposita, photographed by Kahio Tiberio Mazon — fig. b Kahio Tiberio Mazon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 28934495

Guapira opposita, photographed by Diogo Luiz — fig. d Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49858739

Guapira opposita, photographed by Diego Dos Anjos Souza — fig. e Diego Dos Anjos Souza, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194456429

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Native distribution of Guapira opposita, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Bolivia	BOL	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North	BZN
Brazil Northeast	BZE
Brazil South	BZS
Brazil Southeast	BZL
Brazil West-Central	BZC
Colombia	CLM
Ecuador	ECU
Peru	PER
Trinidad-Tobago	TRT
Venezuela	VEN
Venezuelan Antilles	VNA

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 174 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	10.1 °C	14.5 °C	19.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	25.5 °C	26.7 °C	29.6 °C
Annual rainfall	1,281 mm	1,751 mm	2,046 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	124 mm	300 mm	380 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 174 research-grade observations of Guapira opposita 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 11 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.

Bessera calycantha Vell.
Guapira nitida (Mart. ex J.A.Schmidt) Lundell
Guapira olfersiana (Link, Klotzsch & Otto) Lundell
Guapira warmingii (Heimerl) Lundell
Pisonia nitida Mart. ex J.A.Schmidt
Pisonia olfersiana Link, Klotzsch & Otto
Pisonia warmingii Heimerl
Torrubia nitida (Heimerl) Standl.
Torrubia olfersiana (Link, Klotzsch & Otto) Standl.
Torrubia opposita Vell.
Torrubia warmingii (Heimerl) Standl.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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.