Langsdorffia hypogaeaMart.

WFO wfo-0000361335 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Langsdorffia hypogaea, photographed by Sebastian Serna Muñoz
fig. a Sebastian Serna Muñoz, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-02-29 / obs. 63022974
Langsdorffia hypogaea, photographed by Daniel van der Post
fig. b Daniel van der Post, CC0 1.0 / obs. 41593839
Langsdorffia hypogaea, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. c Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202837227
Langsdorffia hypogaea, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. d Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195768956
Langsdorffia hypogaea, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. e Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193933530
Langsdorffia hypogaea, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. f Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192505667
Langsdorffia hypogaea, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. g Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183044413
Langsdorffia hypogaea, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. h Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173786632

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Native range 17 botanical countries

Regions where Langsdorffia hypogaea is native: Mexico Southwest, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela Mexico SouthwestBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorGuatemalaGuyanaNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Langsdorffia hypogaea, 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 South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Southwest MXS NORTHERN 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 105 in flower of 112 examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Langsdorffia hypogaea 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. 105 of 112 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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.

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.

  • Langsdorffia janeirensis Rich.
  • Langsdorffia mexicana Liebm.
  • Langsdorffia moritziana Klotzsch & H.Karst.
  • Langsdorffia rubiginosa Wedd.
  • Senftenbergia moritziana (Klotzsch & H.Karst.) Eichler
  • Senftenbergia moritziana Klotzsch & H.Karst. ex Eichler
  • Thonningia janeirensis (Rich.) Liebm.
  • Thonningia mexicana Liebm.

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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