Lasiacis ruscifolia(Kunth) Hitchc. ex Chase

climbing tribisee

WFO wfo-0000877561 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.

Lasiacis ruscifolia, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. a Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-01 / obs. 170998333
Lasiacis ruscifolia, photographed by Viacheslav Shalisko
fig. b Viacheslav Shalisko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119261327
Lasiacis ruscifolia, photographed by Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez
fig. c Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 20037851
Lasiacis ruscifolia, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. d Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170998350
Lasiacis ruscifolia, photographed by Viacheslav Shalisko
fig. e Viacheslav Shalisko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119261095
Lasiacis ruscifolia, photographed by Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez
fig. f Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 20037916
Lasiacis ruscifolia, photographed by Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez
fig. g Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 20037936
Lasiacis ruscifolia, photographed by Lyrae
fig. h Lyrae, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107729089

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Lasiacis ruscifolia is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeBoliviaColombiaCosta RicaCubaEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáPeruTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela Netherlands Antilles
Native distribution of Lasiacis ruscifolia, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Netherlands Antilles NLA
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
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.

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.

  • Lasiacis compacta (Sw. ex Wikstr.) Hitchc.
  • Lasiacis glabra Swallen
  • Lasiacis globosa Hitchc.
  • Lasiacis liebmanniana Hitchc. ex Chase
  • Lasiacis velutina Swallen
  • Panicum compactum Sw.
  • Panicum liebmannianum E.Fourn.
  • Panicum liebmannianum var. depauperatum E.Fourn.
  • Panicum liebmannianum var. liebmannianum
  • Panicum ruscifolium Kunth
  • Panicum ruscifolium subvar. glabrum E.Fourn.
  • Panicum ruscifolium var. amblyoides E.Fourn.
  • Panicum ruscifolium var. ruscifolium

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.