Lacistema aggregatum(P.J.Bergius) Rusby

WFO wfo-0000363935 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.

Lacistema aggregatum, photographed by Letizia Weichgrebe
fig. a Letizia Weichgrebe, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-03-31 / obs. 55311428
Lacistema aggregatum, photographed by Letizia Weichgrebe
fig. b Letizia Weichgrebe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56234770
Lacistema aggregatum, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. c Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106518517
Lacistema aggregatum, photographed by Letizia Weichgrebe
fig. d Letizia Weichgrebe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 55311444
Lacistema aggregatum, photographed by Letizia Weichgrebe
fig. e Letizia Weichgrebe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56234776
Lacistema aggregatum, photographed by Eduardo A. Bolaños Vargas
fig. f Eduardo A. Bolaños Vargas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128292832
Lacistema aggregatum, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. g Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 93976907
Lacistema aggregatum, photographed by tlaloc27
fig. h tlaloc27, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 33399581

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
452794
Filed as
Lacistema aggregatum (P.J.Bergius) Rusby
Det. by
J. A. Kallunki 1998-01-01
Collected
C. A. Cid Ferreira 1991-10-28
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 28 botanical countries

Regions where Lacistema aggregatum is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestArgentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáPeruSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela
Native distribution of Lacistema aggregatum, 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
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Belize BLZ
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 87 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 14.6 °C 21.6 °C 24.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.4 °C 29.3 °C 32.1 °C
Annual rainfall 1,719 mm 3,056 mm 5,516 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 66 mm 224 mm 593 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 87 research-grade observations of Lacistema aggregatum 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.

Also published as 23 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.

  • Didymandra purpurea Willd.
  • Lacistema aggregatum var. elongatum Maguire
  • Lacistema angustum Schnizl.
  • Lacistema bolivianum Gand.
  • Lacistema coriaceum A.DC.
  • Lacistema curtum J.F.Macbr.
  • Lacistema elongatum Schnizl.
  • Lacistema floribundum Miq.
  • Lacistema guyanense Gand.
  • Lacistema myricoides Sw.
  • Lacistema myricoides var. stipitatum A.DC.
  • Lacistema oblongum Spreng.
  • Lacistema occidentale Cuatrec.
  • Lacistema orinocense Baehni
  • Lacistema pacificum Cuatrec.
  • Lacistema poeppigii A.DC.
  • Lacistema purpureum A.DC.
  • Lacistema rosidiscum J.F.Macbr.
  • Lacistema weberbaueri Baehni
  • Nematospermum laevigatum Rich.
  • Piper aggregatum P.J.Bergius
  • Piper fasciculare Rudge
  • Synzyganthera purpurea Ruiz & Pav.

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.