Quesnelia quesneliana(Brongn.) L.B.Sm.

WFO wfo-0000508126 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 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.

Quesnelia quesneliana, photographed by Carlos Vidigal
fig. a Carlos Vidigal, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2020-11-10 / obs. 104008058
Quesnelia quesneliana, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. b Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58159722
Quesnelia quesneliana, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. c Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57902635
Quesnelia quesneliana, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. d Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168303514
Quesnelia quesneliana, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. e Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168303758
Quesnelia quesneliana, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. f Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57419539
Quesnelia quesneliana, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. g Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168303507
Quesnelia quesneliana, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. h Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57914194

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Quesnelia quesneliana is native: Brazil Southeast Brazil Southeast
Native distribution of Quesnelia quesneliana, 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 Southeast BZL SOUTHERN 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 13 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.

  • Billbergia quesneliana Brongn.
  • Billbergia roseo-marginata hort. ex K.Koch
  • Billbergia roseomarginata K.Koch
  • Billbergia rubra-marginata hort. ex Carrière
  • Billbergia rubromarginata Carrière
  • Billbergia rufa (Gaudich.) N.E.Br.
  • Billbergia skinneri Carrière
  • Lievena princeps Regel
  • Quesnelia cayennensis Baker
  • Quesnelia roseo-marginata Carrière
  • Quesnelia roseomarginata Carrière
  • Quesnelia rufa Gaudich.
  • Quesnelia rufa É.Morren

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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