Helicteres pentandraL.

WFO wfo-0000718136 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Helicteres pentandra, photographed by Vincent A. Vos
fig. a Vincent A. Vos, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-04-27 / obs. 69817787
Helicteres pentandra, photographed by Vincent A. Vos
fig. b Vincent A. Vos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 69817807
Helicteres pentandra, photographed by Ramon and Suzanne Vargas
fig. c Ramon and Suzanne Vargas, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 121160579
Helicteres pentandra, photographed by Ramon and Suzanne Vargas
fig. d Ramon and Suzanne Vargas, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 121160983
Helicteres pentandra, photographed by Ramon and Suzanne Vargas
fig. e Ramon and Suzanne Vargas, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 121160996
Helicteres pentandra, photographed by Ramon and Suzanne Vargas
fig. f Ramon and Suzanne Vargas, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 121160994

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
03075046
Filed as
Helicteres pentandra L.
Det. by
L. J. Dorr 2022-01-01
Collected
H. Medeiros 2015-06-01
Origin
BR
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 Helicteres pentandra is native: Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, French Guiana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela BoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaFrench GuianaPeruSurinameVenezuela
Native distribution of Helicteres pentandra, 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 West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
French Guiana FRG
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 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.

  • Helicteres bracteosa Mart.
  • Helicteres proniflora Rich.
  • Hypophyllanthus lindeni Regel
  • Ozoxeta ovata Raf.

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.

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