Psidium grandifoliumMart. ex DC.

WFO wfo-0000284420 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Psidium grandifolium, photographed by Leonardo Bergamini
fig. a Leonardo Bergamini, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-23 / obs. 173304844
Psidium grandifolium, photographed by Leonardo Bergamini
fig. b Leonardo Bergamini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173304892
Psidium grandifolium, photographed by Leonardo Bergamini
fig. c Leonardo Bergamini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173304947
Psidium grandifolium, photographed by Douglas
fig. d Douglas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61509779
Psidium grandifolium, photographed by Márcia Martins
fig. e Márcia Martins, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61497933
Psidium grandifolium, photographed by Douglas
fig. f Douglas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61509796
Psidium grandifolium, photographed by Márcia Martins
fig. g Márcia Martins, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61497965
Psidium grandifolium, photographed by Douglas
fig. h Douglas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61509925

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Psidium grandifolium is native: Argentina Northeast, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Paraguay Argentina NortheastBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralParaguay
Native distribution of Psidium grandifolium, 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
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Paraguay PAR

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.

  • Guajava cinerea (Mart. ex DC.) Kuntze
  • Guajava grandifolia (Mart. ex DC.) Kuntze
  • Guajava incanescens (Mart. ex DC.) Kuntze
  • Guajava lactea (O.Berg) Kuntze
  • Guajava microcarpa (Cambess.) Kuntze
  • Guajava radicans (O.Berg) Kuntze
  • Guajava riedeliana (O.Berg) Kuntze
  • Guajava rubescens (O.Berg) Kuntze
  • Guajava sericea (O.Berg) Kuntze
  • Psidium albidum Miq.
  • Psidium apaense Barb.Rodr.
  • Psidium cinereum Mart. ex DC.
  • Psidium cinereum var. angustifolium O.Berg
  • Psidium cinereum var. brevipes O.Berg
  • Psidium cinereum var. grandifolium O.Berg
  • Psidium cinereum var. incanescens (Mart. ex DC.) D.Legrand
  • Psidium cinereum var. intermedium O.Berg
  • Psidium cinereum var. paraguariae D.Legrand
  • Psidium cuneatum var. incanescens O.Berg
  • Psidium eriophyllum Barb.Rodr.
  • Psidium grandifolium var. albidum O.Berg
  • Psidium grandifolium var. heterophyllum O.Berg
  • Psidium grandifolium var. incanescens O.Berg
  • Psidium grandifolium var. intermedium O.Berg

and 20 more.

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.