Palicourea racemosa(Aubl.) G.Nicholson

WFO wfo-0000920698 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Palicourea racemosa, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. a Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-28 / obs. 176843574
Palicourea racemosa, photographed by Vincent A. Vos
fig. b Vincent A. Vos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126029076
Palicourea racemosa, photographed by Círculo de Investigación en Taxonomía, Florística y Ecología Vegetal
fig. c Círculo de Investigación en Taxonomía, Florística y Ecología Vegetal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 126520953
Palicourea racemosa, photographed by Franklin Checa
fig. d Franklin Checa, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 41826109
Palicourea racemosa, photographed by Wouter Koch
fig. e Wouter Koch, CC0 1.0 / obs. 5838657
Palicourea racemosa, photographed by Katja Schulz
fig. f Katja Schulz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 5811903
Palicourea racemosa, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. g Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 52245673
Palicourea racemosa, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. h Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 80938171

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Palicourea racemosa is native: Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela Mexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáPeruSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela
Native distribution of Palicourea racemosa, 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
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
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 364 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 16.1 °C 21.4 °C 24.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.9 °C 30.2 °C 33.2 °C
Annual rainfall 1,678 mm 2,992 mm 4,667 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 56 mm 240 mm 642 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 364 research-grade observations of Palicourea racemosa 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.

  • Nonatelia panamensis DC.
  • Nonatelia racemosa Aubl.
  • Oribasia racemosa (Aubl.) J.F.Gmel.
  • Psychotria longistipula Benth.
  • Psychotria quinquecuspis Müll.Arg.
  • Psychotria racemosa Rich.
  • Psychotria racemosa (Aubl.) Forsyth f.
  • Uragoga quinquecuspis (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze
  • Uragoga racemosa (Aubl.) 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. 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.