Scutia spicata (Spiny Bush)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Scutia spicata, photographed by Judy Gallagher — fig. a Judy Gallagher, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-07-09 / obs. 144021194

Scutia spicata, photographed by Victor E. Chocho — fig. b Victor E. Chocho, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 47865112

Scutia spicata, photographed by Carrie Seltzer — fig. c Carrie Seltzer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31770841

Scutia spicata, photographed by John G. Phillips — fig. e John G. Phillips, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 51181261

Scutia spicata, photographed by Leonel Roget — fig. g Leonel Roget, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28949198

Scutia spicata, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning — fig. h Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75149820

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Native distribution of Scutia spicata, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Ecuador	ECU	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Galápagos	GAL
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 17 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.

Colletia spicata Humb. & Bonpl. ex Roem. & Schult.
Discaria parviflora Hook.f.
Discaria parviflora Hook.f.
Discaria pauciflora Hook.f.
Rhamnus guayaquilensis Kunth
Rhamnus senticosa Kunth
Sageretia decussata G.Don
Sageretia guayaquilensis (Kunth) Brongn.
Sageretia senticosa Brongn.
Scutia guayaquilensis Weberb.
Scutia maritima Perkins
Scutia pauciflora Weberb.
Scutia spicata var. spicata
Scypharia guayaquilensis Miers
Scypharia parviflora Miers
Scypharia pauciflora (Hook.f.) Miers
Scypharia senticosa Miers

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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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