Sideroxylon persimile(Hemsl.) T.D.Penn.

WFO wfo-0000310915 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.

Sideroxylon persimile, photographed by Juan Cruzado Cortés
fig. a Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2019-04-28 / obs. 37947860
Sideroxylon persimile, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. b Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31063066
Sideroxylon persimile, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. c Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122787997
Sideroxylon persimile, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. d Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112353579
Sideroxylon persimile, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. e Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38728631
Sideroxylon persimile, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. f Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 36675039
Sideroxylon persimile, photographed by Juan Cruzado Cortés
fig. g Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 37947906
Sideroxylon persimile, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. h Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122788015

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Sideroxylon persimile is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panamá, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeColombiaCosta RicaEl SalvadorGuatemalaNicaraguaPanamáTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela
Native distribution of Sideroxylon persimile, 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
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
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 20 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.

  • Bumelia arborescens Rose
  • Bumelia austin-smithii Standl.
  • Bumelia barba-tigris Pittier
  • Bumelia durangensis Lundell
  • Bumelia eloxochitlensis R.E.Schult. & Conz.
  • Bumelia grisebachii Pierre
  • Bumelia guatemalensis Standl.
  • Bumelia lankesteri Standl.
  • Bumelia leiogyna Donn.Sm.
  • Bumelia lesueurii Standl.
  • Bumelia megaphylla S.F.Blake
  • Bumelia panamensis Standl.
  • Bumelia persimilis Hemsl.
  • Bumelia persimilis subsp. subsessiliflora (Hemsl.) Cronquist
  • Bumelia persimilis subsp. typica Cronquist
  • Bumelia pleistochasia Donn.Sm.
  • Bumelia subsessiliflora Hemsl.
  • Lyciodes persimile (Hemsl.) Kuntze
  • Lyciodes persimilis Kuntze
  • Lyciodes subsessiliflorum (Hemsl.) Kuntze

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.