Myrcia selloi(Spreng.) N.Silveira

WFO wfo-0000247874 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

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.

Myrcia selloi, photographed by danielrmacias
fig. a danielrmacias, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-14 / obs. 197584418
Myrcia selloi, photographed by Florencia Grattarola
fig. b Florencia Grattarola, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197625895
Myrcia selloi, photographed by Florencia Grattarola
fig. c Florencia Grattarola, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197626780
Myrcia selloi, photographed by Ezequiel Vera
fig. d Ezequiel Vera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145991581
Myrcia selloi, photographed by danielrmacias
fig. e danielrmacias, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197584523
Myrcia selloi, photographed by RAP
fig. f RAP, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158212414
Myrcia selloi, photographed by Solana González Novoa
fig. g Solana González Novoa, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 197617965
Myrcia selloi, photographed by Solana González Novoa
fig. h Solana González Novoa, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 197619946

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Myrcia selloi is native: Argentina Northeast, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Paraguay, Uruguay Argentina NortheastBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralParaguayUruguay
Native distribution of Myrcia selloi, 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 Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Paraguay PAR
Uruguay URU

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 90 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 7.8 °C 9.1 °C 23.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 30.0 °C 31.0 °C 31.5 °C
Annual rainfall 1,156 mm 1,313 mm 1,585 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 34 mm 179 mm 225 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 90 research-grade observations of Myrcia selloi 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 59 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.

  • Aulomyrcia acutata O.Berg
  • Aulomyrcia acutifolia O.Berg
  • Aulomyrcia acutifolia var. pubescens O.Berg
  • Aulomyrcia acutifolia var. villosa O.Berg
  • Aulomyrcia assumptionis (Morong) Kausel
  • Aulomyrcia dimorpha O.Berg
  • Aulomyrcia laruotteana (Cambess.) O.Berg
  • Aulomyrcia laruotteana var. glabriuscula (Cambess.) O.Berg
  • Aulomyrcia laruotteana var. impunctata (Cambess.) O.Berg
  • Aulomyrcia laruotteana var. membranacea O.Berg
  • Aulomyrcia laruotteana var. opaca O.Berg
  • Aulomyrcia laruotteana var. paraguayensis O.Berg
  • Aulomyrcia laruotteana var. punctata O.Berg
  • Aulomyrcia laruottiana O.Berg
  • Aulomyrcia ramulosa (DC.) O.Berg
  • Aulomyrcia ramulosa var. acutata O.Berg
  • Aulomyrcia ramulosa var. australis O.Berg
  • Aulomyrcia ramulosa var. colorata O.Berg
  • Aulomyrcia ramulosa var. panicularis O.Berg
  • Aulomyrcia ramulosa var. pauciflora O.Berg
  • Aulomyrcia ramulosa var. subcordata O.Berg
  • Aulomyrcia ramulosa var. triflora (Cambess.) O.Berg
  • Aulomyrcia selloi (Spreng.) Kausel
  • Aulomyrcia undulata O.Berg

and 35 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.