Hoffmannia excelsa(Kunth) K.Schum.

WFO wfo-0000982606 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 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.

Hoffmannia excelsa, photographed by Oscar Marín
fig. a Oscar Marín, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2018-12-15 / obs. 29197423
Hoffmannia excelsa, photographed by Oscar Marín
fig. b Oscar Marín, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 28667896
Hoffmannia excelsa, photographed by Oscar Marín
fig. c Oscar Marín, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 28561752
Hoffmannia excelsa, photographed by Oscar Marín
fig. d Oscar Marín, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 29197436
Hoffmannia excelsa, photographed by Oscar Marín
fig. e Oscar Marín, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 28667902
Hoffmannia excelsa, photographed by Oscar Marín
fig. f Oscar Marín, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 28561722
Hoffmannia excelsa, photographed by Oscar Marín
fig. g Oscar Marín, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 29197435
Hoffmannia excelsa, photographed by Oscar Marín
fig. h Oscar Marín, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 28667906

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Hoffmannia excelsa is native: Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras Mexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestEl SalvadorGuatemalaHonduras
Native distribution of Hoffmannia excelsa, 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
Mexico Gulf MXG NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
El Salvador ELS SOUTHERN AMERICA
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON

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 13 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.

  • Choristes excelsa (Kunth) Benth. ex Walp.
  • Choristes excelsa Benth.
  • Coffea deppeana Steud.
  • Coffea lanceolata Schltdl. & Cham.
  • Deppea excelsa (Kunth) Standl.
  • Higginsia mexicana Link, Klotzsch & Otto
  • Hoffmannia mexicana (Link, Klotzsch & Otto) Hemsl.
  • Hoffmannia montana L.O.Williams
  • Hoffmannia quadrifolia Standl. & Steyerm.
  • Hoffmannia uniflora Standl.
  • Ohigginsia mexicana Link, Klotzsch & Otto
  • Psychotria excelsa Kunth
  • Uragoga excelsa (Kunth) Kuntze

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.