Pseuderanthemum maculatum (Carruthers' falseface)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Pseuderanthemum maculatum, photographed by Brian Oakes Haiti Hunter — fig. a Brian Oakes Haiti Hunter, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-18 / obs. 130026639

Pseuderanthemum maculatum, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng — fig. b Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 32719738

Pseuderanthemum maculatum, photographed by Oleg Kosterin — fig. c Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 103335482

Pseuderanthemum maculatum, photographed by Don Johnston — fig. d Don Johnston, CC0 1.0 / obs. 114766727

Pseuderanthemum maculatum, photographed by Dominik Maximilián Ramík — fig. e Dominik Maximilián Ramík, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184254533

Pseuderanthemum maculatum, photographed by Franz Anthony — fig. f Franz Anthony, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49982521

Pseuderanthemum maculatum, photographed by Adam Mark Lucas-Krol — fig. g Adam Mark Lucas-Krol, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182317670

Pseuderanthemum maculatum, photographed by Greg III Espera — fig. h Greg III Espera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180544839

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Native distribution of Pseuderanthemum maculatum, 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
Solomon Is.	SOL	ASIA-TROPICAL
Vanuatu	VAN	PACIFIC

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 44 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.

Eranthemum albomarginatum B.S.Williams
Eranthemum argenteum Van Geert
Eranthemum atropurpureum Hook.f.
Eranthemum atropurpureum W.Bull ex A.de Vos
Eranthemum aureoreticulatum H.J.Veitch
Eranthemum carruthersii Seem.
Eranthemum eldorado B.S.Williams
Eranthemum maculatum (G.Lodd.) Regel
Eranthemum marmoratum W.Bull
Eranthemum moorei A.de Vos
Eranthemum nigrescens W.Bull
Eranthemum nigrum Linden
Eranthemum reticulatum W.Bull ex A.de Vos
Eranthemum reticulatum A.de Vos
Eranthemum schomburgkii Anon.
Eranthemum tricolor W.Bull
Eranthemum tricolor Leblebici
Eranthemum versicolor A.de Vos
Eranthemum whartonianum Hemsl.
Graptophyllum caudifolium C.B.Clarke ex Bedd.
Justicia maculata G.Lodd.
Pseuderanthemum atropurpureum (W.Bull ex A.de Vos) Radlk.
Pseuderanthemum carruthersii (Seem.) Guillaumin
Pseuderanthemum carruthersii var. atropurpureum (W.Bull ex A.de Vos) Fosberg

and 20 more.

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.
USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol PSCA16. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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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