Guarea macrophyllaVahl

WFO wfo-0000710954 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.

Guarea macrophylla, photographed by William G. Borges
fig. a William G. Borges, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-24 / obs. 190376878
Guarea macrophylla, photographed by Matias Cabezas
fig. b Matias Cabezas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166067341
Guarea macrophylla, photographed by demianlescano
fig. c demianlescano, CC0 1.0 / obs. 67242893
Guarea macrophylla, photographed by Matias Cabezas
fig. d Matias Cabezas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166067326
Guarea macrophylla, photographed by Matias Cabezas
fig. e Matias Cabezas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166067309
Guarea macrophylla, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. f Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168309248
Guarea macrophylla, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. g Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168309254

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Native range 20 botanical countries

Regions where Guarea macrophylla is native: Argentina Northeast, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Leeward Is., Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela, Windward Is. Argentina NortheastBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorFrench GuianaGuyanaPanamáParaguayPeruSurinameUruguayVenezuela Leeward Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Guarea macrophylla, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guyana GUY
Leeward Is. LEE
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
Uruguay URU
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN

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 64 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.

  • Guarea acreana C.DC.
  • Guarea alborosea Rusby
  • Guarea angustifolia C.DC.
  • Guarea balansae C.DC.
  • Guarea bangii Rusby
  • Guarea cernua Vell.
  • Guarea clausseniana C.DC.
  • Guarea coriacea C.DC.
  • Guarea costulata C.DC.
  • Guarea cuspidata C.DC.
  • Guarea demerarana C.DC.
  • Guarea diversifolia C.DC.
  • Guarea dumetorum C.DC.
  • Guarea fiebrigii C.DC.
  • Guarea franciscoana C.DC.
  • Guarea frutescens C.DC.
  • Guarea gardneri C.DC.
  • Guarea glaziovii C.DC.
  • Guarea grandiflora Steud.
  • Guarea guedesii C.DC.
  • Guarea hassleri C.DC.
  • Guarea hassleri var. esulcata C.DC.
  • Guarea jaeggiana C.DC.
  • Guarea langsdorffiana C.DC.

and 40 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.