Malpighia cnideSpreng.

WFO wfo-0001249854 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Malpighia cnide, photographed by Yolanda M. Leon
fig. a Yolanda M. Leon, CC0 1.0 / 2021-03-13 / obs. 116048683
Malpighia cnide, photographed by Yolanda M. Leon
fig. b Yolanda M. Leon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 116048702
Malpighia cnide, photographed by Yolanda M. Leon
fig. c Yolanda M. Leon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 116048726

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Malpighia cnide is native: Dominican Republic, Haiti Dominican RepublicHaiti
Native distribution of Malpighia cnide, 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
Dominican Republic DOM SOUTHERN AMERICA
Haiti HAI

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 12 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.

  • Malpighia cnida DC.
  • Malpighia cnide var. domingensis Urb. & Nied.
  • Malpighia cnide var. ovalis Ekman & Nied.
  • Malpighia cubensis var. longipedunculata Hadač
  • Malpighia gnida D.Dietr.
  • Malpighia gnidae G.Don
  • Malpighia gonavensis F.K.Mey.
  • Malpighia ovalis (Ekman & Nied.) F.K.Mey.
  • Malpighia oviedensis F.K.Mey.
  • Malpighia samanensis F.K.Mey.
  • Malpighia velutina subsp. intermedia (Ekman & Nied.) F.K.Mey.
  • Malpighia velutina var. intermedia Ekman & Nied.

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.