Gurania bignoniacea(Poepp. & Endl.) C.Jeffrey

WFO wfo-0000711952 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.

Gurania bignoniacea, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. a Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-04 / obs. 178682727
Gurania bignoniacea, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. b Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 10347301
Gurania bignoniacea, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. c Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 10347303
Gurania bignoniacea, photographed by Emily Franzen
fig. d Emily Franzen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172903566

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Gurania bignoniacea is native: Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela BoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorFrench GuianaGuyanaNicaraguaPanamáPeruSurinameVenezuela
Native distribution of Gurania bignoniacea, 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
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guyana GUY
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
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 29 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.

  • Anguria balfoureana (Cogn.) J.F.Macbr.
  • Anguria bignoniacea Poepp. & Endl.
  • Anguria cissoides Benth.
  • Anguria guianensis Klotzsch
  • Anguria heterophylla Willd. ex Schltdl.
  • Anguria inaequalis (Cogn.) J.F.Macbr.
  • Anguria mathewsii J.F.Macbr.
  • Anguria tessmannii (Harms) J.F.Macbr.
  • Anguria trifoliata Aubl.
  • Anguria ucayalina (Harms) J.F.Macbr.
  • Gurania balfoureana Cogn.
  • Gurania breviflora Cogn.
  • Gurania breviflora var. subintegrifolia Cogn.
  • Gurania castroi Cuatrec.
  • Gurania cissoides (Benth.) Cogn.
  • Gurania coccinea Cogn.
  • Gurania costaricensis Cogn.
  • Gurania costaricensis var. subtriloba Cogn.
  • Gurania costaricensis var. subtrilobata Cogn.
  • Gurania guyanensis (Klotzsch ex Schltdl.) Cogn.
  • Gurania heteromorpha Cuatrec.
  • Gurania inaequalis Cogn.
  • Gurania linkiana Cogn.
  • Gurania parviflora Cogn.

and 5 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.