Mutisia acuminataRuiz & Pav.

WFO wfo-0000013787 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Mutisia acuminata, photographed by Mariela Nicole Crespo Carrazana
fig. a Mariela Nicole Crespo Carrazana, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-05-01 / obs. 193322919
Mutisia acuminata, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. b Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194143364
Mutisia acuminata, photographed by ARIANA VILLAFAN ROJAS
fig. c ARIANA VILLAFAN ROJAS, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190067442
Mutisia acuminata, photographed by capacoscar
fig. d capacoscar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184280904
Mutisia acuminata, photographed by Tomás Tamagno
fig. e Tomás Tamagno, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183110794
Mutisia acuminata, photographed by Zoltán Stekkelpak
fig. f Zoltán Stekkelpak, CC0 1.0 / obs. 168123065
Mutisia acuminata, photographed by Zoltán Stekkelpak
fig. g Zoltán Stekkelpak, CC0 1.0 / obs. 168123782
Mutisia acuminata, photographed by Zoltán Stekkelpak
fig. h Zoltán Stekkelpak, CC0 1.0 / obs. 168004625

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Mutisia acuminata is native: Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Chile North, Peru Argentina NorthwestBoliviaChile NorthPeru
Native distribution of Mutisia acuminata, 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 Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Chile North CLN
Peru PER

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.

Flowering 79 in flower of 81 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Mutisia acuminata observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 79 of 81 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

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.

  • Mutisia candolleana Fielding & Gardner
  • Mutisia hirsuta Meyen
  • Mutisia hirsuta var. hirsuta
  • Mutisia peduncularis Cav.
  • Mutisia petiolulata Decne. ex Wedd.
  • Mutisia viciifolia Cav.
  • Mutisia viciifolia f. intermedia Cuatrec.
  • Mutisia viciifolia var. candolleana (Fielding & Gardner) Wedd.
  • Mutisia viciifolia var. candollena (Fielding & Gardner) Wedd.
  • Mutisia viciifolia var. genuina Wedd.
  • Mutisia viciifolia var. hirsuta (Meyen) Wedd.
  • Mutisia viciifolia var. paucijuga Griseb.
  • Mutisia viciifolia var. viciifolia

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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