Margyricarpus pinnatus(Lam.) Kuntze

Pearl-fruit

WFO wfo-0000991503 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Margyricarpus pinnatus, photographed by E Santos Ortega
fig. a E Santos Ortega, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-24 / obs. 177342444
Margyricarpus pinnatus, photographed by Marien Béguelin
fig. b Marien Béguelin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174685023
Margyricarpus pinnatus, photographed by Cesar Ormazabal
fig. c Cesar Ormazabal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171721492
Margyricarpus pinnatus, photographed by Cesar Ormazabal
fig. d Cesar Ormazabal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171721504
Margyricarpus pinnatus, photographed by Cesar Ormazabal
fig. e Cesar Ormazabal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171721466
Margyricarpus pinnatus, photographed by GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ
fig. f GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122285810
Margyricarpus pinnatus, photographed by Jairo Pinto
fig. g Jairo Pinto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118527638
Margyricarpus pinnatus, photographed by Cesar Ormazabal
fig. h Cesar Ormazabal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181307975

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
2624284
Filed as
Margyricarpus pinnatus (Lam.) Kuntze
Det. by
J. Richard Abbott 2016-01-01
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
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 11 botanical countries

Regions where Margyricarpus pinnatus is native: Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil West-Central, Chile Central, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay Argentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestArgentina SouthBoliviaBrazil SouthBrazil West-CentralChile CentralColombiaEcuadorPeruUruguay
Native distribution of Margyricarpus pinnatus, 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
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Argentina South AGS
Bolivia BOL
Brazil South BZS
Brazil West-Central BZC
Chile Central CLC
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
Peru PER
Uruguay URU

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 940 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -0.2 °C 6.5 °C 9.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 14.4 °C 19.4 °C 29.8 °C
Annual rainfall 526 mm 1,185 mm 2,187 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 5 mm 135 mm 273 mm

It is found where winters bring light frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 940 research-grade observations of Margyricarpus pinnatus 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 8 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.

  • Ancistrum barbatum Lam.
  • Margyricarpus imberbis C.Presl
  • Margyricarpus laevis Willd.
  • Margyricarpus patagonicus Speg.
  • Margyricarpus pinnatus var. hirsutus Kuntze
  • Margyricarpus setosus Ruiz & Pav.
  • Margyricarpus setosus var. patagonicus (Speg.) Speg.
  • Margyricarpus setosus var. paucifoliolatus Bitter

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.