Schizanthus pinnatusRuiz & Pav.

poorman's orchid

WFO wfo-0001025402 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Schizanthus pinnatus, photographed by Jorge Herreros de Lartundo
fig. a Jorge Herreros de Lartundo, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-24 / obs. 166946318
Schizanthus pinnatus, photographed by Aira Francisca Faúndez Fallau
fig. b Aira Francisca Faúndez Fallau, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 98446448
Schizanthus pinnatus, photographed by Javier Conejeros Gastó
fig. c Javier Conejeros Gastó, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 88801962
Schizanthus pinnatus, photographed by Jorge Herreros de Lartundo
fig. d Jorge Herreros de Lartundo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166946329
Schizanthus pinnatus, photographed by Aira Francisca Faúndez Fallau
fig. e Aira Francisca Faúndez Fallau, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 98446481
Schizanthus pinnatus, photographed by Javier Conejeros Gastó
fig. f Javier Conejeros Gastó, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 88802000
Schizanthus pinnatus, photographed by Aira Francisca Faúndez Fallau
fig. g Aira Francisca Faúndez Fallau, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 98446647
Schizanthus pinnatus, photographed by Javier Conejeros Gastó
fig. h Javier Conejeros Gastó, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 88802029

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Schizanthus pinnatus is native: Chile Central, Chile South Chile CentralChile South
Native distribution of Schizanthus pinnatus, 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
Chile Central CLC SOUTHERN AMERICA
Chile South CLS

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 19 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.

  • Eutoca pedunculosa Phil.
  • Salpiglossis pinnatus var. gracilis Benth.
  • Schizanthus duodecemfidus Stokes
  • Schizanthus gayanus Phil.
  • Schizanthus gracilis (Benth.) Clos
  • Schizanthus gracilis var. gracilis
  • Schizanthus heterophyllus Phil.
  • Schizanthus humilis Phil.
  • Schizanthus humilis hort. ex Steud.
  • Schizanthus laciniosus Phil.
  • Schizanthus latifolius Phil.
  • Schizanthus lilacinus Kunze
  • Schizanthus major Hoffmanns. ex Steud.
  • Schizanthus pinnatifidus Lindl.
  • Schizanthus pinnatus var. gracilis Benth.
  • Schizanthus pinnatus var. pinnatus
  • Schizanthus priestii Paxton
  • Schizanthus tenuifolius Phil.
  • Schizanthus tenuis Phil.

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.