Saxifraga spathularisBrot.

WFO wfo-0000494790 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Saxifraga spathularis, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. a Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 205984898
Saxifraga spathularis, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. b Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205976493
Saxifraga spathularis, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. c Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 121498838
Saxifraga spathularis, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. d Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119780560
Saxifraga spathularis, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. e Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 90308623
Saxifraga spathularis, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. f Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76206645
Saxifraga spathularis, photographed by Brodie Cass Talbott
fig. g Brodie Cass Talbott, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 39539539
Saxifraga spathularis, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 31097631

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Saxifraga spathularis is native: Ireland, Portugal, Spain IrelandPortugalSpain
Native distribution of Saxifraga spathularis, 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
Ireland IRE EUROPE
Portugal POR
Spain SPA

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 10 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.

  • Robertsonia hibernica Bree ex Sternb.
  • Robertsonia serrata Haw.
  • Saxifraga hibernica Sternb.
  • Saxifraga serra Hoffmanns.
  • Saxifraga serrata (Haw.) Otto
  • Saxifraga serratifolia (D.Don) J.Mackay ex Rchb.
  • Saxifraga umbrosa subsp. spathularis (Brot.) Rothm.
  • Saxifraga umbrosa var. longipes Haw.
  • Saxifraga umbrosa var. serratifolia D.Don
  • Saxifraga umbrosa var. spathularis (Brot.) Cout.

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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