Siparuna brasiliensis(Spreng.) A.DC.

WFO wfo-0001084431 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.

Siparuna brasiliensis, photographed by Márcia Martins
fig. a Márcia Martins, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-02-14 / obs. 61497150
Siparuna brasiliensis, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. b Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148648436
Siparuna brasiliensis, photographed by Márcia Martins
fig. c Márcia Martins, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61497190
Siparuna brasiliensis, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. d Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148648295
Siparuna brasiliensis, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. e Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148648397
Siparuna brasiliensis, photographed by B. Phalan
fig. f B. Phalan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 6573421
Siparuna brasiliensis, photographed by B. Phalan
fig. g B. Phalan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 6573412
Siparuna brasiliensis, photographed by B. Phalan
fig. h B. Phalan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 6573403

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Siparuna brasiliensis is native: Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central Brazil NortheastBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-Central
Native distribution of Siparuna brasiliensis, 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
Brazil Northeast BZE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC

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 34 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.

  • Citrosma apiosyce Mart. ex Tul.
  • Citrosma brasiliensis Spreng.
  • Citrosma cujabana Mart. ex Tul.
  • Citrosma erythrocarpa Tul.
  • Citrosma estrellensis Tul.
  • Citrosma foliosa Tul.
  • Citrosma lanceolata Tul.
  • Citrosma obovata Gardner
  • Citrosma oligandra Tul.
  • Citrosma plebeia Tul.
  • Citrosma ruficeps Tul.
  • Siparuna apiosyce A.DC.
  • Siparuna apiosyce var. ruficeps (Tul.) Perkins
  • Siparuna chlorantha Perkins
  • Siparuna cordata Tolm.
  • Siparuna cujabana A.DC.
  • Siparuna cujabana var. foliosa (Tul.) Perkins
  • Siparuna cujabana var. goyazana A.DC.
  • Siparuna cujabana var. lanceolata (Tul.) Perkins
  • Siparuna cujabana var. plebeia (Tul.) A.DC.
  • Siparuna cujubana var. lanceolata (Tul.) Perkins
  • Siparuna erythrocarpa (Tul.) A.DC.
  • Siparuna estrellensis A.DC.
  • Siparuna foliosa A.DC.

and 10 more.

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.