Mauritiella armata(Mart.) Burret

WFO wfo-0000238101 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.

Mauritiella armata, photographed by Leonardo Bergamini
fig. a Leonardo Bergamini, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-10-26 / obs. 64606330
Mauritiella armata, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. b Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73995880
Mauritiella armata, photographed by Tsssss
fig. c Tsssss, CC0 1.0 / obs. 100521162
Mauritiella armata, photographed by Vincent A. Vos
fig. d Vincent A. Vos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177985225
Mauritiella armata, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. e Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73995523
Mauritiella armata, photographed by Vincent A. Vos
fig. f Vincent A. Vos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177985231
Mauritiella armata, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. g Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179265170
Mauritiella armata, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. h Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179265162

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Mauritiella armata is native: Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela BoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaEcuadorGuyanaPeruSurinameVenezuela
Native distribution of Mauritiella armata, 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
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
Guyana GUY
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
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 119 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 14.9 °C 20.9 °C 23.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 29.0 °C 30.5 °C 33.4 °C
Annual rainfall 1,280 mm 2,203 mm 3,714 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 10 mm 153 mm 665 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 119 research-grade observations of Mauritiella armata 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 26 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.

  • Lepidococcus armatus (Mart.) H.Wendl. & Drude
  • Lepidococcus duckei (Burret) A.D.Hawkes
  • Lepidococcus huebneri (Burret) A.D.Hawkes
  • Lepidococcus intermedius (Burret) A.D.Hawkes
  • Lepidococcus martianus (Spruce) A.D.Hawkes
  • Lepidococcus peruvianus (Becc.) A.D.Hawkes
  • Lepidococcus pumilus (Wallace) H.Wendl. & Drude ex A.D.Hawkes
  • Mauritia aculeata Mart.
  • Mauritia armata Mart.
  • Mauritia campylostachys (Burret) Balick
  • Mauritia duckei (Burret) Balick
  • Mauritia huebneri Burret
  • Mauritia intermedia Burret
  • Mauritia macrospadix (Burret) Balick
  • Mauritia martiana Spruce
  • Mauritia nannostachys (Burret) Balick
  • Mauritia peruviana Becc.
  • Mauritiella campylostachys Burret
  • Mauritiella duckei Burret
  • Mauritiella huebneri (Burret) Burret
  • Mauritiella intermedia (Burret) Burret
  • Mauritiella macrospadix Burret
  • Mauritiella martiana (Spruce) Burret
  • Mauritiella nannostachys Burret

and 2 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.