Tolumnia guianensis(Aubl.) Braem

WFO wfo-0000326340 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 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.

Tolumnia guianensis, photographed by Yolanda M. Leon
fig. a Yolanda M. Leon, CC0 1.0 / 2020-11-01 / obs. 102870774
Tolumnia guianensis, photographed by Yolanda M. Leon
fig. b Yolanda M. Leon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 102870820
Tolumnia guianensis, photographed by Yolanda M. Leon
fig. c Yolanda M. Leon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 160576985
Tolumnia guianensis, photographed by Yolanda M. Leon
fig. d Yolanda M. Leon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 105019227
Tolumnia guianensis, photographed by Yolanda M. Leon
fig. e Yolanda M. Leon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 160577046
Tolumnia guianensis, photographed by Yolanda M. Leon
fig. f Yolanda M. Leon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 105019243
Tolumnia guianensis, photographed by Yolanda M. Leon
fig. g Yolanda M. Leon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 102870800
Tolumnia guianensis, photographed by Yolanda M. Leon
fig. h Yolanda M. Leon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 105019253

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Tolumnia guianensis is native: Dominican Republic, Haiti Dominican RepublicHaiti
Native distribution of Tolumnia guianensis, 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
Dominican Republic DOM SOUTHERN AMERICA
Haiti HAI

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 18 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.

  • Oncidium desertorum Nash ex Withner
  • Oncidium desertorum var. alborubrum (Moir & A.D.Hawkes) Garay
  • Oncidium desertorum var. album (Moir & A.D.Hawkes) Garay
  • Oncidium desertorum var. aureorubrum Moir
  • Oncidium guianense (Aubl.) Garay
  • Oncidium guianense f. album (Moir & A.D.Hawkes) Withner
  • Oncidium guianense f. aureorubrum (Moir) Withner
  • Oncidium guianense subsp. alborubrum (Moir & A.D.Hawkes) Withner
  • Oncidium guianense var. alborubrum (Moir & A.D.Hawkes) K.S.Wilson
  • Oncidium guianense var. album (Moir & A.D.Hawkes) K.S.Wilson
  • Oncidium guianense var. aureorubrum (Moir) K.S.Wilson
  • Oncidium guianensis (Aubl.) Garay
  • Oncidium intermedium Bertero ex Spreng.
  • Oncidium intermedium var. alborubrum Moir & A.D.Hawkes
  • Oncidium intermedium var. album Moir & A.D.Hawkes
  • Ophrys aloidea Poir.
  • Ophrys guianensis Aubl.
  • Tolumnia intermedia (Bertero ex Spreng.) H.Dietr.

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.