Niedenzuella acutifolia(Cav.) W.R.Anderson

WFO wfo-0000382701 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Niedenzuella acutifolia, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. a Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / 2020-11-23 / obs. 105517727
Niedenzuella acutifolia, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. b Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 105517751
Niedenzuella acutifolia, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. c Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 105517799
Niedenzuella acutifolia, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. d Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 105517851

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
528977
Filed as
Niedenzuella acutifolia (Cav.) W.R.Anderson
Det. by
W. R. Anderson 2010-01-01
Collected
W. R. Anderson 1975-02-01
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 11 botanical countries

Regions where Niedenzuella acutifolia is native: Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela BoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralEcuadorFrench GuianaGuyanaSurinameVenezuela
Native distribution of Niedenzuella acutifolia, 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
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guyana GUY
Suriname SUR
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 14 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.

  • Bunchosia laxiflora Gardner
  • Tetrapterys acutifolia Cav.
  • Tetrapterys acutifolia var. elliptica Griseb.
  • Tetrapterys acutifolia var. lancifolia (A.Juss.) Nied.
  • Tetrapterys fraxinifolia A.Juss.
  • Tetrapterys guilleminiana A.Juss.
  • Tetrapterys guilleminiana f. anadenia Nied.
  • Tetrapterys guilleminiana f. martiana Nied.
  • Tetrapterys hetero-alata Kralik
  • Tetrapterys lancifolia A.Juss.
  • Tetrapterys metallicolor A.Juss.
  • Tetrapterys psilandra Griseb.
  • Tetrapterys punctulata A.Juss.
  • Triopterys acutifolia (Cav.) Willd.

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.