Saracha punctataRuiz & Pav.

WFO wfo-0001025330 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.

Saracha punctata, photographed by Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros
fig. a Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros, CC0 1.0 / 2022-03-30 / obs. 186179740
Saracha punctata, photographed by Manuel Roncal
fig. b Manuel Roncal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 177819170
Saracha punctata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 31081711
Saracha punctata, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. d Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 6860362
Saracha punctata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 31081712
Saracha punctata, photographed by Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros
fig. f Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros, CC0 1.0 / obs. 192362327
Saracha punctata, photographed by Floro Ortiz Contreras
fig. g Floro Ortiz Contreras, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153500222
Saracha punctata, photographed by Floro Ortiz Contreras
fig. h Floro Ortiz Contreras, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153500247

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Saracha punctata is native: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela BoliviaColombiaEcuadorPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Saracha punctata, 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
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN

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 26 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.

  • Acnistus lindenianus (Miers) Hunz.
  • Atropa punctata (Ruiz & Pav.) Pers.
  • Bellinia punctata (Ruiz & Pav.) Roem. & Schult.
  • Capsicum punctatum (Ruiz & Pav.) Kuntze
  • Lycioplesium boissieri Dunal
  • Lycioplesium ovatum Miers
  • Poecilochroma boissieri (Dunal) Dunal & A.DC.
  • Poecilochroma brevifolia Rusby
  • Poecilochroma frondosum Miers
  • Poecilochroma funckiana Dunal
  • Poecilochroma guttatum Miers
  • Poecilochroma lindeniana Miers
  • Poecilochroma lobbianum Miers
  • Poecilochroma macrophylla Rusby
  • Poecilochroma macrophylla Rusby
  • Poecilochroma maculatum Miers
  • Poecilochroma punctatum (Ruiz & Pav.) Miers
  • Poecilochroma venosa Rusby
  • Saracha boissieri (Dunal) Miers
  • Saracha frondosa Miers
  • Saracha funkiana (Dunal & A.DC.) Miers
  • Saracha guttata (Miers) Miers
  • Saracha lindeniana (Miers) Miers
  • Saracha lobbiana Miers

and 2 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.