Lophophora diffusa(Croizat) Bravo

Peyote

WFO wfo-0001256202 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Lophophora diffusa, photographed by Sandino Guerrero
fig. a Sandino Guerrero, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-03-18 / obs. 63887152
Lophophora diffusa, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz
fig. b José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54677068
Lophophora diffusa, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz
fig. c José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 37711612
Lophophora diffusa, photographed by Sandino Guerrero
fig. d Sandino Guerrero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 13745048
Lophophora diffusa, photographed by Jose Antonio Aranda Pineda
fig. e Jose Antonio Aranda Pineda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 4962796
Lophophora diffusa, photographed by Sandino Guerrero
fig. f Sandino Guerrero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 1134383
Lophophora diffusa, photographed by Jose Antonio Aranda Pineda
fig. g Jose Antonio Aranda Pineda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 10640110
Lophophora diffusa, photographed by Martín Sánchez Vilchis
fig. h Martín Sánchez Vilchis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 56789757

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Lophophora diffusa is native: Mexico Northeast Mexico Northeast
Native distribution of Lophophora diffusa, 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 Northeast MXE 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.

Also published as 14 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.

  • Lophophora diffusa subsp. diffusa
  • Lophophora diffusa subsp. kubesae Halda, Kupcák & Malina
  • Lophophora diffusa subsp. viridescens Halda
  • Lophophora diffusa var. koehresii Říha
  • Lophophora diffusa var. swobodaiana Halda, Kupcák & Malina
  • Lophophora echinata var. diffusa Croizat
  • Lophophora koehresii (Říha) Bohata, Myšák & Šnicer
  • Lophophora viridescens (Halda) Halda
  • Lophophora williamsii subsp. diffusa (Croizat) Scheinvar
  • Lophophora williamsii var. diffusa (Croizat) G.D.Rowley
  • Lophophora williamsii var. koehresii (Říha) Grym
  • Peyotl diffusus (Croizat) Sotom.
  • Peyotl koehresii (Říha) Sotom.
  • Peyotl viridescens (Halda) Sotom., Arred. & Mart.Mend.

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.

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