Meriania speciosa(Bonpl.) Naudin

WFO wfo-0001082378 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Meriania speciosa, photographed by Juan C. Espinosa
fig. a Juan C. Espinosa, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-16 / obs. 178495427
Meriania speciosa, photographed by GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ
fig. b GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 132907055
Meriania speciosa, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. c Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109657990
Meriania speciosa, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. d Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99117063
Meriania speciosa, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. e Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100044289
Meriania speciosa, photographed by Oscar Marín
fig. f Oscar Marín, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 29801491
Meriania speciosa, photographed by desertnaturalist
fig. g desertnaturalist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 64644219
Meriania speciosa, photographed by Skjold Søndergaard
fig. h Skjold Søndergaard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183879090

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Meriania speciosa is native: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela ColombiaEcuadorPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Meriania speciosa, 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
Colombia CLM SOUTHERN AMERICA
Ecuador ECU
Peru PER
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.

Also published as 19 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.

  • Chaetogastra speciosa (Bonpl.) DC.
  • Chastenaea longifolia Naudin
  • Meriania barbinervis (Klotzsch ex H.Karst.) Naudin
  • Meriania candollei Cogn.
  • Meriania grandidens Triana
  • Meriania karstenii Naudin
  • Meriania lindenii Cogn.
  • Meriania longifolia (Naudin) Cogn.
  • Meriania longifolia var. spruceana (Cogn.) Cuatrec.
  • Meriania macrantha Linden ex Planch.
  • Meriania majalis Benth.
  • Meriania spruceana Cogn.
  • Meriania trianae (H.Karst.) Cogn.
  • Meriania umbellata H.Karst.
  • Rhexia speciosa Bonpl.
  • Schwerinia barbinervis Klotzsch ex H.Karst.
  • Schwerinia speciosa (Bonpl.) H.Karst.
  • Schwerinia superba H.Karst.
  • Schwerinia trianae H.Karst.

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.

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