Salmea scandens(L.) DC.

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WFO wfo-0000036542 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.

Salmea scandens, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. a Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-10-06 / obs. 26530299
Salmea scandens, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. b Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28813464
Salmea scandens, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. c Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11252390
Salmea scandens, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. d Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11252381
Salmea scandens, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. e Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11943266
Salmea scandens, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. f Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11943269

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
232911
Filed as
Salmea scandens (L.) DC.
Det. by
M. R. Bolick 1978-01-01
Collected
H. von Türckheim 1907-03
Origin
GT
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. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. 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 herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Salmea scandens is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestArgentina NorthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruPuerto RicoVenezuela
Native distribution of Salmea scandens, 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 Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Belize BLZ
Bolivia BOL
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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 29 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.

  • Bidens scandens L.
  • Calea amellus (L.) L.
  • Fornicaria scandens Raf.
  • Hopkirkia eupatoria (DC.) Spreng.
  • Isocarpha amellus Spreng. ex DC.
  • Melanthera amellus (L.) D'Arcy
  • Melanthera amellus var. amellus
  • Salmea eupatoria var. intermedia DC.
  • Salmea grandiceps Cass.
  • Salmea nitida Sch.Bip. ex Klatt
  • Salmea oppositiceps Cass.
  • Salmea parviceps Cass.
  • Salmea pubescens (S.F.Blake) Standl. & Steyerm.
  • Salmea salicifolia Brongn.
  • Salmea scandens subsp. paraguariensis Hassl.
  • Salmea scandens subsp. scandens
  • Salmea scandens var. amellus (L.) Kuntze
  • Salmea scandens var. obtusata S.F.Blake
  • Salmea scandens var. paraguariensis Hassl.
  • Salmea scandens var. pubescens S.F.Blake
  • Salmea scandens var. scandens
  • Salmea sessilifolia Griseb.
  • Salmea tomentosa D.L.Nash
  • Salmeopsis claussenii Benth

and 5 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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.