Saurauia montanaSeem.

WFO wfo-0000501393 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Saurauia montana, photographed by Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez
fig. a Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-11-13 / obs. 104283893
Saurauia montana, photographed by J. L. Gómez-Hechavarría
fig. b J. L. Gómez-Hechavarría, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118130153
Saurauia montana, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. c Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 6740246
Saurauia montana, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. d Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 1692106
Saurauia montana, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. e Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 88077945
Saurauia montana, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. f Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9946605
Saurauia montana, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. g Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 132766479
Saurauia montana, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. h Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 6740254

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Saurauia montana is native: Mexico Southeast, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá Mexico SoutheastCosta RicaHondurasNicaraguaPanamá
Native distribution of Saurauia montana, 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
Costa Rica COS SOUTHERN AMERICA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
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 11 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.

  • Saurauia costaricensis Donn.Sm.
  • Saurauia costaricensis var. brachitricha Buscal.
  • Saurauia costaricensis var. dolicotricha Buscal.
  • Saurauia costaricensis var. scabrida Buscal.
  • Saurauia engleriana Buscal.
  • Saurauia ovalifolia Donn.Sm.
  • Saurauia pseudocostaricensis Buscal.
  • Saurauia pseudoscabrida Buscal.
  • Saurauia pseudoveraguensis Buscal.
  • Saurauia setosa Standl.
  • Saurauia veraguasensis Seem.

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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