Protium tenuifolium(Engl.) Engl.

WFO wfo-0000398293 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Protium tenuifolium, photographed by Letizia Weichgrebe
fig. a Letizia Weichgrebe, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-03-27 / obs. 55310183
Protium tenuifolium, photographed by Letizia Weichgrebe
fig. b Letizia Weichgrebe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 55310184
Protium tenuifolium, photographed by Letizia Weichgrebe
fig. c Letizia Weichgrebe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 55310192
Protium tenuifolium, photographed by Letizia Weichgrebe
fig. d Letizia Weichgrebe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 55310194

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
02463666
Filed as
Protium tenuifolium var. herbertii Cuatrec.
Det. by
D. C. Daly 1995-01-01
Collected
O. Marulanda 1990-09-02
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. We link to the digitised sheet rather than rehosting it, because the holding institutions do not serve their images to third parties reliably and we are not going to show you a picture we cannot actually deliver. 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 sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Protium tenuifolium is native: Brazil North, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela Brazil NorthBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorFrench GuianaGuyanaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáPeruSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela
Native distribution of Protium tenuifolium, 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 North BZN SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guyana GUY
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN

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.

  • Icica sessiliflora Rose
  • Icicopsis tenuifolia Engl.
  • Icicopsis tenuifolia var. brevicalyx Engl.
  • Icicopsis tenuifolia var. multijuga Engl.
  • Protium neglectum Swart
  • Protium neglectum var. panamense Swart
  • Protium neglectum var. sessiliflorum (Rose) Swart
  • Protium sessiliflorum (Rose) Standl.
  • Protium tenuifolium var. herbertii Cuatrec.
  • Tapirira chagrensis Pittier
  • Tingulonga tenuifolia (Engl.) 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.