Psychotria micranthaKunth

WFO wfo-0000286665 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 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.

Psychotria micrantha, photographed by Andres Hernandez
fig. a Andres Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-28 / obs. 191421330
Psychotria micrantha, photographed by Andres Hernandez
fig. b Andres Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191421331
Psychotria micrantha, photographed by Andres Hernandez
fig. c Andres Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191420641
Psychotria micrantha, photographed by Andres Hernandez
fig. d Andres Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191426643
Psychotria micrantha, photographed by Andres Hernandez
fig. e Andres Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191421324

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
03457502
Filed as
Psychotria micrantha Kunth
Det. by
C. M. Taylor 2022-01-01
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Psychotria micrantha is native: Mexico Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela Mexico SoutheastColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Psychotria micrantha, 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
Colombia CLM SOUTHERN AMERICA
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Southeast MXT NORTHERN AMERICA

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 7 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.

  • Mapouria micrantha (Kunth) Wernham
  • Mapouria tomentosa Oerst.
  • Psychotria hindsii Standl.
  • Psychotria rufescens Humb. & Bonpl. ex Schult.
  • Psychotria tomentosa Hemsl.
  • Uragoga hemsleyana Kuntze
  • Uragoga micrantha (Kunth) 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.

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