Sibthorpia repens(Mutis ex L.) Kuntze

WFO wfo-0000495212 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Sibthorpia repens, photographed by Juan Cruzado Cortés
fig. a Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2019-08-07 / obs. 59581723
Sibthorpia repens, photographed by Nolan Exe
fig. b Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184559540
Sibthorpia repens, photographed by Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros
fig. c Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros, CC0 1.0 / obs. 192357152
Sibthorpia repens, photographed by Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros
fig. d Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros, CC0 1.0 / obs. 186179822
Sibthorpia repens, photographed by Nolan Exe
fig. e Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184559563
Sibthorpia repens, photographed by Nolan Exe
fig. f Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184559582
Sibthorpia repens, photographed by Diego Inclan
fig. g Diego Inclan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49437558
Sibthorpia repens, photographed by Diego Inclan
fig. h Diego Inclan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49437567

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Sibthorpia repens is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestArgentina NorthwestBoliviaColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaHondurasPanamáPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Sibthorpia repens, 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
Argentina Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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 12 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.

  • Allopleia rotundifolia Raf.
  • Sibthorpia americana Sessé & Moc.
  • Sibthorpia nectarifera Wedd.
  • Sibthorpia parvifolia M.Martens & Galeotti
  • Sibthorpia pichinchensis Kunth
  • Sibthorpia retusa Kunth
  • Sibthorpia retusa f. grandifolia Griseb.
  • Sibthorpia rotundifolia Edwin
  • Sibthorpia rotundifolia f. alba Edwin
  • Sibthorpia triandra Suess.
  • Veronica rotundifolia Ruiz & Pav.
  • Willichia repens Mutis ex L.

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.