Hippobroma longiflora(L.) G.Don

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WFO wfo-0000833400 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Hippobroma longiflora, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. a Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 204818503
Hippobroma longiflora, photographed by Dana Lee Ling
fig. b Dana Lee Ling, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202057322
Hippobroma longiflora, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. c Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203998049
Hippobroma longiflora, photographed by Shawn O'Donnell
fig. d Shawn O'Donnell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203186555
Hippobroma longiflora, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. e Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198446575
Hippobroma longiflora, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. f Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198447415
Hippobroma longiflora, photographed by Dustin VanOverbeke
fig. g Dustin VanOverbeke, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203973556
Hippobroma longiflora, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. h Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198316856

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
1025561
Filed as
Hippobroma longiflora (L.) G.Don
Det. by
J. L. Luteyn 1986-01-01
Collected
L. M. Underwood
Origin
PR
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 1 botanical country

Regions where Hippobroma longiflora is native: Jamaica Jamaica
Native distribution of Hippobroma longiflora, 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
Jamaica JAM SOUTHERN AMERICA

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.

Flowering 711 in flower of 739 examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Hippobroma longiflora observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 711 of 739 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 2,024 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 13.1 °C 20.3 °C 24.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 25.4 °C 28.5 °C 33.3 °C
Annual rainfall 1,246 mm 2,519 mm 4,708 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 47 mm 269 mm 833 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 2,024 research-grade observations of Hippobroma longiflora 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. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 8 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.

  • Isotoma longiflora (L.) C.Presl
  • Isotoma longiflora var. runcinata (Hassk.) Panigrahi, P.Daniel & M.V.Viswan.
  • Isotoma runcinata Hassk.
  • Laurentia longiflora (L.) Peterm.
  • Laurentia longiflora var. runcinata (Hassk.) E.Wimm.
  • Lobelia longiflora L.
  • Rapuntium longiflorum Mill.
  • Solenopsis longiflora (L.) M.R.Almeida

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. 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.

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.