Trichilia elegansA.Juss.

WFO wfo-0000455435 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Trichilia elegans, photographed by Pablo Bombín
fig. a Pablo Bombín, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-04 / obs. 149033812
Trichilia elegans, photographed by Étienne Lacroix-Carignan
fig. b Étienne Lacroix-Carignan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 44209276
Trichilia elegans, photographed by Pablo Bombín
fig. c Pablo Bombín, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149033770
Trichilia elegans, photographed by Étienne Lacroix-Carignan
fig. d Étienne Lacroix-Carignan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 44209237
Trichilia elegans, photographed by Étienne Lacroix-Carignan
fig. e Étienne Lacroix-Carignan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 44209274
Trichilia elegans, photographed by Étienne Lacroix-Carignan
fig. f Étienne Lacroix-Carignan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 44209282
Trichilia elegans, photographed by Étienne Lacroix-Carignan
fig. g Étienne Lacroix-Carignan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 44209304

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Trichilia elegans is native: Argentina Northeast, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela Argentina NortheastBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaEcuadorGuyanaParaguayPeruUruguayVenezuela
Native distribution of Trichilia elegans, 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 Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
Guyana GUY
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Uruguay URU
Venezuela VEN

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 23 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.

  • Heynichia malleoides Kunth
  • Moschoxylum elegans A.Juss.
  • Moschoxylum richardianum (A.Juss.) A.Juss.
  • Moschoxylum viride Rusby
  • Odontandra elegans Triana & Planch.
  • Odontosiphon elegans M.Roem.
  • Odontosiphon richardianum (A.Juss.) M.Roem.
  • Trichilia alba C.DC.
  • Trichilia elegans subsp. elegans
  • Trichilia elegans var. latifoliola C.DC.
  • Trichilia gardneri C.DC.
  • Trichilia graciliflora Harms
  • Trichilia guayaquilensis C.DC.
  • Trichilia guayaquilensis var. candollei Kuntze
  • Trichilia hassleri C.DC.
  • Trichilia hirsuta C.DC.
  • Trichilia richardiana A.Juss.
  • Trichilia subarborescens C.DC.
  • Trichilia tenuiramea C.DC.
  • Trichilia validinervia Harms
  • Trichilia warmingii C.DC.
  • Trichilia warmingii var. macrophylla C.DC.
  • Trichilia weberbaueri C.DC.

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.