Platymiscium pinnatum

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.

Platymiscium pinnatum, photographed by Jorge I. Merchán Mayorga — fig. a Jorge I. Merchán Mayorga, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-08-10 / obs. 149955917

Platymiscium pinnatum, photographed by Daniel A. Monsalve Ortiz — fig. b Daniel A. Monsalve Ortiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 4407240

Platymiscium pinnatum, photographed by Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros — fig. e Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros, CC0 1.0 / obs. 59437805

Platymiscium pinnatum, photographed by Andres Hernandez — fig. g Andres Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193414788

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium: The New York Botanical Garden
Accession: 00755348
Filed as: Platymiscium pinnatum var. ulei (Harms) Klitg.
Det. by: B. B. Klitgaard 1996-02-01
Collected: G. T. Prance 1966-10-27
Origin: BR
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 14 botanical countries

Native distribution of Platymiscium pinnatum, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Bolivia	BOL	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North	BZN
Colombia	CLM
Costa Rica	COS
Ecuador	ECU
El Salvador	ELS
French Guiana	FRG
Guyana	GUY
Honduras	HON
Panamá	PAN
Peru	PER
Suriname	SUR
Venezuela	VEN
Venezuelan Antilles	VNA

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 11 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.

Amerimnon pinnatum Jacq.
Platymiscium cochabambense Rusby
Platymiscium diadelphum S.F.Blake
Platymiscium dubium Pittier
Platymiscium pinnatum subsp. polystachyum (Benth.) Klitg.
Platymiscium platystachyum Griseb.
Platymiscium polystachyum Benth.
Platymiscium polystachyum Benth.
Platymiscium polystachyum var. fendleri Benth.
Platymiscium ulei Harms
Platymiscium urophyllum Harms

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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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