Sisyrinchium palmifoliumL.

WFO wfo-0000786524 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 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.

Sisyrinchium palmifolium, photographed by aacocucci
fig. a aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-05 / obs. 175052478
Sisyrinchium palmifolium, photographed by aacocucci
fig. b aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175052490
Sisyrinchium palmifolium, photographed by aacocucci
fig. c aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175052500
Sisyrinchium palmifolium, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg
fig. d Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 170202811
Sisyrinchium palmifolium, photographed by Roderick Cameron
fig. e Roderick Cameron, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165386308
Sisyrinchium palmifolium, photographed by Roderick Cameron
fig. f Roderick Cameron, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165386537
Sisyrinchium palmifolium, photographed by Roderick Cameron
fig. g Roderick Cameron, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165386606

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Sisyrinchium palmifolium is native: Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil South, Galápagos, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay Argentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBoliviaBrazil SouthParaguayPeruUruguay Galápagos
Native distribution of Sisyrinchium palmifolium, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Bolivia BOL
Brazil South BZS
Galápagos GAL
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Uruguay URU

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 16 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.

  • Bermudiana marginata (Klatt) Kuntze
  • Bermudiana palmifolia (L.) Kuntze
  • Eleutherine palmifolia (L.) Merr.
  • Glumosia palmifolia (L.) Herb.
  • Glumosia palmifolium Herb.
  • Marica palmifolia (L.) Ker Gawl.
  • Moraea alata Vahl
  • Moraea palmifolia (L.) Thunb.
  • Paneguia palmifolia (L.) Raf.
  • Sisyrinchium altissimum Ten.
  • Sisyrinchium giganteum Ten.
  • Sisyrinchium grande Baker
  • Sisyrinchium macrocephalum Graham
  • Sisyrinchium macrocephalum subsp. fuscoviride Ravenna
  • Sisyrinchium macrocephalum subsp. giganteum Ravenna
  • Sisyrinchium marginatum Klatt

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.