Mansoa alliacea(Lam.) A.H.Gentry

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WFO wfo-0000778999 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Mansoa alliacea, photographed by Haneesh K M
fig. a Haneesh K M, CC0 1.0 / 2021-08-14 / obs. 150951658
Mansoa alliacea, photographed by Ajit Ampalakkad
fig. b Ajit Ampalakkad, CC0 1.0 / obs. 48254013
Mansoa alliacea, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. c Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179265096
Mansoa alliacea, photographed by Ajit Ampalakkad
fig. d Ajit Ampalakkad, CC0 1.0 / obs. 48254008
Mansoa alliacea, photographed by Ajit Ampalakkad
fig. e Ajit Ampalakkad, CC0 1.0 / obs. 48254018
Mansoa alliacea, photographed by Ajit Ampalakkad
fig. f Ajit Ampalakkad, CC0 1.0 / obs. 48254022
Mansoa alliacea, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. g Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179265086

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
03195923
Filed as
Mansoa alliacea (Desv. ex Beauverd) A.H.Gentry
Det. by
A. H. Gentry 1992-01-01
Collected
E. Stijfhoorn 1991-06-29
Origin
BO
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Mansoa alliacea is native: Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Leeward Is., Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Windward Is. BoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastColombiaEcuadorFrench GuianaGuyanaPeruSurinameTrinidad-Tobago Leeward Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Mansoa alliacea, 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
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guyana GUY
Leeward Is. LEE
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Windward Is. WIN

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 196 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 9.3 °C 15.2 °C 24.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.7 °C 30.6 °C 38.9 °C
Annual rainfall 846 mm 2,056 mm 3,478 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 18 mm 90 mm 495 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 196 research-grade observations of Mansoa alliacea 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 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.

  • Adenocalymma alliaceum (Lam.) Miers
  • Adenocalymma obovatum Urb.
  • Adenocalymma pachypus (K.Schum.) Bureau & K.Schum.
  • Adenocalymma sagotii Bureau & K.Schum.
  • Anemopaegma pachypus K.Schum.
  • Bignonia alliacea Lam.
  • Bignonia citrifolia Vitman
  • Pachyptera alliacea (Lam.) A.H.Gentry
  • Pseudocalymma alliaceum (Lam.) Sandwith
  • Pseudocalymma alliaceum var. macrocalyx Sandwith
  • Pseudocalymma pachypus (K.Schum.) Sandwith
  • Pseudocalymma sagotii (Bureau & K.Schum.) Sandwith
  • Pseudocalymma sagotii var. macrocalyx (Sandwith) L.O.Williams

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.