Palicourea hebeclada(DC.) Borhidi

hairy wild coffee

WFO wfo-0000920917 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.

Palicourea hebeclada, photographed by keesgroenendijk
fig. a keesgroenendijk, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-28 / obs. 170734435
Palicourea hebeclada, photographed by Aitor
fig. b Aitor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 89629991
Palicourea hebeclada, photographed by keesgroenendijk
fig. c keesgroenendijk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170734464
Palicourea hebeclada, photographed by keesgroenendijk
fig. d keesgroenendijk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170734498
Palicourea hebeclada, photographed by Djibo Zanzot
fig. e Djibo Zanzot, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 196822936
Palicourea hebeclada, photographed by Anthony Batista
fig. f Anthony Batista, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160560519
Palicourea hebeclada, photographed by Djibo Zanzot
fig. g Djibo Zanzot, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 196822874
Palicourea hebeclada, photographed by Djibo Zanzot
fig. h Djibo Zanzot, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 196822917

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K001432017
Filed as
Psychotria hebeclada DC.
Det. by
Taylor, C.M.
Collected
Smith, H.H. 1898-08-01
Origin
CO
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 10 botanical countries

Regions where Palicourea hebeclada is native: Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panamá, Venezuela Mexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBrazil SoutheastColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorGuatemalaPanamáVenezuela
Native distribution of Palicourea hebeclada, 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
Brazil Southeast BZL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
Guatemala GUA
Panamá PAN
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Gulf MXG NORTHERN AMERICA
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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 71 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 11.7 °C 22.9 °C 24.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 25.5 °C 29.7 °C 33.9 °C
Annual rainfall 1,787 mm 2,602 mm 3,918 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 48 mm 88 mm 485 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 71 research-grade observations of Palicourea hebeclada 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 9 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.

  • Palicourea molliramis K.Schum. & K.Krause
  • Psychotria bracteolata M.Martens & Galeotti
  • Psychotria hebeclada DC.
  • Psychotria justicioides Schltdl.
  • Psychotria molliramis (K.Schum. & K.Krause) Steyerm.
  • Psychotria pubescens Bartl. ex DC.
  • Uragoga bracteolata (M.Martens & Galeotti) Kuntze
  • Uragoga hebeclada (DC.) Kuntze
  • Uragoga justicioides (Schltdl.) Kuntze

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol PSPU. public domain. 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.

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.