Nectandra hihua(Ruiz & Pav.) Rohwer

shinglewood

WFO wfo-0000379103 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 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.

Nectandra hihua, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. a Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / 2008-07-04 / obs. 1536138
Nectandra hihua, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. b Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 1536139
Nectandra hihua, photographed by Ana Nuño
fig. c Ana Nuño, CC0 1.0 / obs. 180156142
Nectandra hihua, photographed by Ana Nuño
fig. d Ana Nuño, CC0 1.0 / obs. 180157968

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
01194881
Filed as
Nectandra hihua (Ruiz & Pav.) Rohwer
Det. by
J. G. Rohwer 1993-01-01
Collected
B. V. Rabelo 1983-04-07
Origin
BR
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 33 botanical countries

Regions where Nectandra hihua is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorEl SalvadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruPuerto RicoSurinameVenezuela Leeward Is.
Native distribution of Nectandra hihua, 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 North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Suriname SUR
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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 22 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.

  • Laurus borbonia Sw.
  • Laurus globosa Lam.
  • Laurus hihua Ruiz & Pav.
  • Nectandra albiflora Lundell
  • Nectandra antillana Meisn.
  • Nectandra bredemeyeriana Nees
  • Nectandra glabrescens Benth.
  • Nectandra grandiflora subsp. latifolia Meisn.
  • Nectandra guanaiensis Rusby
  • Nectandra leucantha Griseb.
  • Nectandra leucantha var. attenuata Meisn.
  • Nectandra leucantha var. guianensis Meisn.
  • Nectandra leucantha var. peruviana Meisn.
  • Nectandra magnoliaefolia A.Rich.
  • Nectandra magnoliifolia A.Rich.
  • Nectandra maranonensis O.C.Schmidt
  • Nectandra megaphylla Hassl.
  • Nectandra schomburgkii Meisn.
  • Nectandra tessmannii O.C.Schmidt
  • Nectandra willdenoviana Nees
  • Ocotea salicifolia Hook. & Arn.
  • Sassafridium macrophyllum Rose

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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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