Paepalanthus pilosus(Kunth) Kunth

WFO wfo-0000486897 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY-SA

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.

Paepalanthus pilosus, photographed by Fabien Anthelme
fig. a Fabien Anthelme, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-04-08 / obs. 196479607
Paepalanthus pilosus, photographed by Fabien Anthelme
fig. b Fabien Anthelme, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 196479610
Paepalanthus pilosus, photographed by Fabien Anthelme
fig. c Fabien Anthelme, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 196479602
Paepalanthus pilosus, photographed by Fabien Anthelme
fig. d Fabien Anthelme, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 196479617

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Paepalanthus pilosus is native: Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela ColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorPanamáPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Paepalanthus pilosus, 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
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
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 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.

  • Dupatya pilosa (Kunth) Kuntze
  • Dupatya selaginoides (Benth.) Kuntze
  • Eriocaulon pilosum Kunth
  • Eriocaulon selaginoides Benth.
  • Paepalanthus dennisii Moldenke
  • Paepalanthus espinosianus Moldenke
  • Paepalanthus karstenii var. minimus Moldenke
  • Paepalanthus karstenii var. subsessilis (Moldenke) Moldenke
  • Paepalanthus kupperi Suess.
  • Paepalanthus loxensis Moldenke
  • Paepalanthus schultesii Moldenke
  • Paepalanthus selaginoides (Benth.) Körn.
  • Paepalanthus subsessilis Moldenke

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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