Ocotea pedicellatavan der Werff

WFO wfo-0001043797 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ocotea pedicellata, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. a Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-20 / obs. 199633785
Ocotea pedicellata, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. b Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174622488
Ocotea pedicellata, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. c Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171123047
Ocotea pedicellata, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. d Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171121586
Ocotea pedicellata, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. e Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169410044
Ocotea pedicellata, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. f Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168741226
Ocotea pedicellata, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. g Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168572825
Ocotea pedicellata, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. h Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168568746

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 2373873
Filed as
Ocotea pedicellata van der Werff
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
J. Cuatrecasas, R. Jaramillo M. & G. Huertas 1961-09-09
Origin
CO
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. We link to the digitised sheet rather than rehosting it, because the holding institutions do not serve their images to third parties reliably and we are not going to show you a picture we cannot actually deliver. 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 sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Ocotea pedicellata is native: Colombia Colombia
Native distribution of Ocotea pedicellata, 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
Colombia CLM SOUTHERN AMERICA

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 50 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 6.5 °C 10.0 °C 17.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 15.1 °C 19.8 °C 24.8 °C
Annual rainfall 1,565 mm 1,886 mm 2,418 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 136 mm 220 mm 297 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 50 research-grade observations of Ocotea pedicellata 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.

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.