Mesosphaerum sidifolium(L'Hér.) Harley & J.F.B.Pastore

WFO wfo-0001429188 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Mesosphaerum sidifolium, photographed by John G. Phillips
fig. a John G. Phillips, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-12-16 / obs. 126491556
Mesosphaerum sidifolium, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. b Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11894837
Mesosphaerum sidifolium, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. c Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11894838
Mesosphaerum sidifolium, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. d Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11894841
Mesosphaerum sidifolium, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. e Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11894843

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Mesosphaerum sidifolium is native: Belize, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Ecuador, Galápagos, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, Venezuela BelizeBoliviaBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastColombiaEcuadorHondurasNicaraguaPeruVenezuela Galápagos
Native distribution of Mesosphaerum sidifolium, 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
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
Galápagos GAL
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
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 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.

  • Bystropogon sidifolius L'Hér.
  • Hyptis graveolens Salzm. ex Benth.
  • Hyptis mikanii (Benth.) J.A.Schmidt
  • Hyptis polyantha Poit.
  • Hyptis polystachya var. longiflora Benth.
  • Hyptis sidifolia (L'Hér.) Briq.
  • Hyptis silvestris Epling
  • Hyptis umbrosa Salzm. ex Benth.
  • Hyptis umbrosa var. mikanii Benth.
  • Mesosphaerum graveolens Kuntze
  • Mesosphaerum polyanthum (Poit.) Kuntze
  • Nepeta pauciflora Spreng.
  • Nepeta sidifolia J.F.Gmel.

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.