Jatropha dioicaSessé

Leatherstem

WFO wfo-0000219593 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Jatropha dioica, photographed by Francisco Martínez González
fig. a Francisco Martínez González, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-07-18 / obs. 174456742
Jatropha dioica, photographed by Kane Sandoval
fig. b Kane Sandoval, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167751138
Jatropha dioica, photographed by Francisco Martínez González
fig. c Francisco Martínez González, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 174447782
Jatropha dioica, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz
fig. d José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130502115
Jatropha dioica, photographed by Leticia Jiménez Hernández
fig. e Leticia Jiménez Hernández, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 144818441
Jatropha dioica, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. f Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 140446367
Jatropha dioica, photographed by Francisco Martínez González
fig. g Francisco Martínez González, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 145754469
Jatropha dioica, photographed by Francisco Martínez González
fig. h Francisco Martínez González, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 130749379

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Flowering n = 283 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 283 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 11 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.

  • Curcas cuneifolia Baill.
  • Jatropha cuneifolia (Cav.) Sessé & Moc.
  • Jatropha dioica var. sessiliflora (Hook.) McVaugh
  • Jatropha spathulata (Ortega) Müll.Arg.
  • Jatropha spathulata var. genuina Müll.Arg.
  • Jatropha spathulata var. sessiliflora (Hook.) Müll.Arg.
  • Loureira cuneifolia Cav.
  • Mozinna sessiliflora Small
  • Mozinna spathulata Ortega
  • Mozinna spathulata var. sessiliflora Hook.
  • Zimapania schiedeanum Engl. & Pax

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.