Lysiloma acapulcense(Kunth) Benth.

WFO wfo-0000174677 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Lysiloma acapulcense, photographed by Luis F. Ramírez
fig. a Luis F. Ramírez, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-04-27 / obs. 123549720
Lysiloma acapulcense, photographed by Viacheslav Shalisko
fig. b Viacheslav Shalisko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 39270554
Lysiloma acapulcense, photographed by Viacheslav Shalisko
fig. c Viacheslav Shalisko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 16802127
Lysiloma acapulcense, photographed by Eugenio Padilla
fig. d Eugenio Padilla, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 77872543
Lysiloma acapulcense, photographed by Eugenio Padilla
fig. e Eugenio Padilla, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 72925267
Lysiloma acapulcense, photographed by Eugenio Padilla
fig. f Eugenio Padilla, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 77845321
Lysiloma acapulcense, photographed by Viacheslav Shalisko
fig. g Viacheslav Shalisko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 35495270
Lysiloma acapulcense, photographed by Viacheslav Shalisko
fig. h Viacheslav Shalisko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 35495599

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Lysiloma acapulcense is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeEl SalvadorGuatemalaHondurasNicaragua
Native distribution of Lysiloma acapulcense, 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 Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC

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 123 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 6.4 °C 9.9 °C 18.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.4 °C 31.4 °C 35.0 °C
Annual rainfall 672 mm 946 mm 1,577 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 12 mm 21 mm 44 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 123 research-grade observations of Lysiloma acapulcense 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 17 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.

  • Acacia acapulcensis Kunth
  • Acacia demostachya Benth.
  • Acacia desmostachya Benth.
  • Lysiloma cuneata Britton & Rose
  • Lysiloma cuneatum Britton & Rose
  • Lysiloma desmostachya (Benth.) Benth.
  • Lysiloma desmostachys (Benth.) Benth.
  • Lysiloma desmostachyum (Benth.) Benth.
  • Lysiloma durangense Britton & Rose
  • Lysiloma durangensis Britton & Rose
  • Lysiloma jorullense Britton & Rose
  • Lysiloma jorullensis Britton & Rose
  • Lysiloma pedicellata Britton & Rose
  • Lysiloma pedicellatum Britton & Rose
  • Lysiloma platycarpa Britton & Rose
  • Lysiloma platycarpum Britton & Rose
  • Lysiloma purpusii Britton & Rose

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.