Morisonia ferruginea(L.) Christenh. & Byng

WFO wfo-0001423779 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 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.

Morisonia ferruginea, photographed by Brian Oakes Haiti Hunter
fig. a Brian Oakes Haiti Hunter, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-04-25 / obs. 123197822
Morisonia ferruginea, photographed by Brian Oakes Haiti Hunter
fig. b Brian Oakes Haiti Hunter, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122343823
Morisonia ferruginea, photographed by Yolanda M. Leon
fig. c Yolanda M. Leon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 12874348
Morisonia ferruginea, photographed by Brian Oakes Haiti Hunter
fig. d Brian Oakes Haiti Hunter, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176506962
Morisonia ferruginea, photographed by Yolanda M. Leon
fig. e Yolanda M. Leon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 143926628
Morisonia ferruginea, photographed by Yolanda M. Leon
fig. f Yolanda M. Leon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 143927124
Morisonia ferruginea, photographed by Brian Oakes Haiti Hunter
fig. g Brian Oakes Haiti Hunter, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176506871
Morisonia ferruginea, photographed by Yolanda M. Leon
fig. h Yolanda M. Leon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 48640682

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Morisonia ferruginea is native: Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica CubaDominican RepublicHaitiJamaica Cayman Is.
Native distribution of Morisonia ferruginea, 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
Cayman Is. CAY SOUTHERN AMERICA
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Haiti HAI
Jamaica JAM

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 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.

  • Capparis comosa Jacq.
  • Capparis elaeagnifolia Jacq.
  • Capparis ferruginea L.
  • Capparis octandra Jacq.
  • Linnaeobreynia ferruginea (L.) Hutch.
  • Pleuteron comosa (Jacq.) Raf.
  • Quadrella ferruginea (L.) Iltis & Cornejo
  • Uterveria comosa (Jacq.) Bertol.

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.