Sanchezia oblongaRuiz & Pav.

WFO wfo-0001045064 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sanchezia oblonga, photographed by Margaret Burger
fig. a Margaret Burger, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-08-01 / obs. 147780394
Sanchezia oblonga, photographed by kbkash
fig. b kbkash, CC0 1.0 / obs. 131174404
Sanchezia oblonga, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. c Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 127039106
Sanchezia oblonga, photographed by GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ
fig. d GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109642366
Sanchezia oblonga, photographed by Daval Davis
fig. e Daval Davis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 78370771
Sanchezia oblonga, photographed by Daval Davis
fig. f Daval Davis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 62465453
Sanchezia oblonga, photographed by Douglas
fig. g Douglas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43298919
Sanchezia oblonga, photographed by cstobie
fig. h cstobie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 34521723

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Sanchezia oblonga is native: Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru BoliviaBrazil NorthColombiaEcuadorPeru
Native distribution of Sanchezia oblonga, 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
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North BZN
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
Peru PER

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.

  • Ancylogyne peruviana Nees
  • Sanchezia bicolor Leonard & L.B.Sm.
  • Sanchezia flava Leonard
  • Sanchezia glaucophylla Anon.
  • Sanchezia helophila Leonard & L.B.Sm.
  • Sanchezia hirsuta Pers.
  • Sanchezia macbridei Leonard
  • Sanchezia megalia Leonard & L.B.Sm.
  • Sanchezia nobilis Hook.f.
  • Sanchezia nobilis var. glaucophylla Lem.
  • Sanchezia nobilis var. variegata B.S.Williams
  • Sanchezia peruviana (Nees) Rusby
  • Sanchezia speciosa Leonard

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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