Handroanthus capitatus(Bureau & K.Schum.) Mattos

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WFO wfo-0000778584 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 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.

Handroanthus capitatus, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. a Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-30 / obs. 166612235
Handroanthus capitatus, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. b Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166608855
Handroanthus capitatus, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. c Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152370709
Handroanthus capitatus, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. d Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166612276
Handroanthus capitatus, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. e Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152370889

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
00952055
Filed as
Handroanthus capitatus (Bureau & K.Schum.) Mattos
Det. by
S. O. Grose 2006-01-01
Collected
S. A. Mori 1989-09-18
Origin
GF
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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 9 botanical countries

Regions where Handroanthus capitatus is native: Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela BoliviaBrazil NorthColombiaFrench GuianaGuyanaPeruSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela
Native distribution of Handroanthus capitatus, 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
Colombia CLM
French Guiana FRG
Guyana GUY
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
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 6 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.

  • Tabebuia capitata (Bureau & K.Schum.) Sandwith
  • Tabebuia glomerata Urb.
  • Tabebuia hypolepra Sprague & Sandwith
  • Tecoma capitata Bureau & K.Schum.
  • Tecoma leucoxylon var. miquelii DC.
  • Tecoma leucoxylon var. pentaphylla Bureau & K.Schum.

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol TACA17. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.

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