Picramnia antidesmaSw.

WFO wfo-0000474796 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

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.

Picramnia antidesma, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. a Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-14 / obs. 163867988
Picramnia antidesma, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. b Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 6470258
Picramnia antidesma, photographed by Jake Rehage
fig. c Jake Rehage, CC0 1.0 / obs. 94859540
Picramnia antidesma, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. d Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163867966
Picramnia antidesma, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. e Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 6470261
Picramnia antidesma, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. f Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139336896
Picramnia antidesma, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. g Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139336983
Picramnia antidesma, photographed by Jake Rehage
fig. h Jake Rehage, CC0 1.0 / obs. 94859514

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Picramnia antidesma is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panamá Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEl SalvadorGuatemalaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamá
Native distribution of Picramnia antidesma, 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
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
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.

Also published as 21 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.

  • Brasilium glabrum J.F.Gmel.
  • Cicca macrostachya (Müll.Arg.) Benth.
  • Phyllanthus macrostachyus Müll.Arg.
  • Picramnia allenii D.M.Porter
  • Picramnia andicola Tul.
  • Picramnia antidesma var. glabrescens Planch.
  • Picramnia antidesma var. microphylla Kuntze
  • Picramnia antidesma var. nervosa Planch. ex Hemsl.
  • Picramnia antidesma var. normalis Kuntze
  • Picramnia antidesma var. pubescens Schltdl. & Cham.
  • Picramnia bonplandiana Tul.
  • Picramnia brachybotryosa Donn.Sm.
  • Picramnia fessonia DC.
  • Picramnia lindeniana Tul.
  • Picramnia locuples Standl.
  • Picramnia pistaciaefolia S.F.Blake & Standl.
  • Picramnia quaternaria Donn.Sm.
  • Picramnia tetramera Turcz.
  • Picramnia triandra Stokes
  • Picramnia velutina Lundell
  • Tariri antidesma (Sw.) Baill.

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.