Palicourea hoffmannseggiana(Willd. ex Schult.) Borhidi

Hoffmannsegg's wild coffee

WFO wfo-0000920704 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Palicourea hoffmannseggiana, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. a Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-15 / obs. 176048660
Palicourea hoffmannseggiana, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. b Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176048711
Palicourea hoffmannseggiana, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. c Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175305241
Palicourea hoffmannseggiana, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. d Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175185837
Palicourea hoffmannseggiana, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. e Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175185664
Palicourea hoffmannseggiana, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. f Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174068491
Palicourea hoffmannseggiana, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. g Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173321988
Palicourea hoffmannseggiana, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. h Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184521268

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Native range 25 botanical countries

Regions where Palicourea hoffmannseggiana is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorFrench GuianaGuyanaNicaraguaPanamáPeruPuerto RicoSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela Venezuelan Antilles
Native distribution of Palicourea hoffmannseggiana, 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
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
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
French Guiana FRG
Guyana GUY
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
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 189 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 13.9 °C 22.8 °C 24.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.6 °C 29.8 °C 33.3 °C
Annual rainfall 1,255 mm 2,787 mm 4,215 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 30 mm 225 mm 366 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 189 research-grade observations of Palicourea hoffmannseggiana 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 39 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.

  • Carapichea patrisii DC.
  • Cephaelis dichotoma Willd. ex Schult.
  • Cephaelis furcata Bartl. ex DC.
  • Cephaelis hoffmannseggiana Willd. ex Schult.
  • Cephaelis patrisii (DC.) D.Dietr.
  • Cephaelis rubra Willd. ex Schult.
  • Palicourea furcata (DC.) Borhidi
  • Patabea capitellata Wawra
  • Psychotria bahiensis Müll.Arg.
  • Psychotria barbiflora DC.
  • Psychotria barbiflora var. genuina Müll.Arg.
  • Psychotria biattenuata Müll.Arg.
  • Psychotria capitellata (Wawra) Benth. & Hook.f.
  • Psychotria cuspidata var. vulgatior Schltdl.
  • Psychotria flavicans Müll.Arg.
  • Psychotria furcata DC.
  • Psychotria heterocephala Müll.Arg.
  • Psychotria hoffmannseggiana (Willd. ex Schult.) Müll.Arg.
  • Psychotria hoffmannseggiana f. pubescens Steyerm.
  • Psychotria hoffmannseggiana subsp. tribracteata (C.Wright ex Griseb.) Borhidi
  • Psychotria hoffmannseggiana var. celsa Steyerm.
  • Psychotria hoffmannseggiana var. hoffmannseggiana
  • Psychotria hoffmannseggiana var. tribracteata (C.Wright ex Griseb.) Steyerm.
  • Psychotria rubra (Willd. ex Schult.) Müll.Arg.

and 15 more.

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 PSHO2. 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.