Marcetia taxifolia(A.St.-Hil.) DC.

WFO wfo-0001078801 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 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.

Marcetia taxifolia, photographed by Morten Ross
fig. a Morten Ross, CC BY 4.0 / 2010-11-27 / obs. 200941324
Marcetia taxifolia, photographed by Morten Ross
fig. b Morten Ross, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200569816
Marcetia taxifolia, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. c Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128098943
Marcetia taxifolia, photographed by Morten Ross
fig. d Morten Ross, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200941395
Marcetia taxifolia, photographed by Morten Ross
fig. e Morten Ross, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200570143
Marcetia taxifolia, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. f Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128098976
Marcetia taxifolia, photographed by Morten Ross
fig. g Morten Ross, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200941420
Marcetia taxifolia, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. h Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128098918

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
521075
Filed as
Marcetia taxifolia (A.St.-Hil.) DC.
Det. by
J. J. Wurdack 1987-01-01
Collected
J. H. Kirkbride Jr. 1972-04-01
Origin
BR
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 8 botanical countries

Regions where Marcetia taxifolia is native: Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Guyana, Venezuela Brazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaGuyanaVenezuela
Native distribution of Marcetia taxifolia, 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
Brazil North BZN SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Guyana GUY
Venezuela VEN

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 97 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 8.5 °C 12.6 °C 19.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 19.9 °C 26.0 °C 30.4 °C
Annual rainfall 922 mm 1,570 mm 2,591 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 28 mm 74 mm 331 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 97 research-grade observations of Marcetia taxifolia 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 29 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.

  • Marcetia andicola Naudin
  • Marcetia cinerea Triana
  • Marcetia cordigera DC.
  • Marcetia cordigera var. andicola (Naudin) Cogn.
  • Marcetia decussata DC.
  • Marcetia denudata Naudin
  • Marcetia disticha Cogn.
  • Marcetia excoriata DC.
  • Marcetia fastigiata Cogn.
  • Marcetia fastigiata f. imbricata (Cogn.) Luetzelb.
  • Marcetia fastigiata f. imbricata (Cogn.) Luetzelb.
  • Marcetia fastigiata var. imbricata Cogn.
  • Marcetia gardneri Cogn.
  • Marcetia glandulosa DC.
  • Marcetia glazioviana Cogn.
  • Marcetia hirsuta Cogn.
  • Marcetia juniperina (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Spreng.) DC.
  • Marcetia pubescens DC.
  • Marcetia schenckii Cogn.
  • Marcetia tamariscina DC.
  • Marcetia taxifolia var. cinerea DC.
  • Marcetia taxifolia var. decumbens Cogn.
  • Marcetia taxifolia var. glabrescens Cogn.
  • Marcetia taxifolia var. glandulosa (DC.) Cogn.

and 5 more.

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.