Vallesia glabra(Cav.) Link

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WFO wfo-0000330962 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Vallesia glabra, photographed by Francisco Farriols Sarabia
fig. a Francisco Farriols Sarabia, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 192679768
Vallesia glabra, photographed by Jose Luis Navarro
fig. b Jose Luis Navarro, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197101250
Vallesia glabra, photographed by aacocucci
fig. c aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182912446
Vallesia glabra, photographed by Jose Luis Navarro
fig. d Jose Luis Navarro, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165604444
Vallesia glabra, photographed by Bill Levine
fig. e Bill Levine, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 132868149
Vallesia glabra, photographed by Naturalist Tours
fig. f Naturalist Tours, CC0 1.0 / obs. 112743488
Vallesia glabra, photographed by Bill Levine
fig. g Bill Levine, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61956380
Vallesia glabra, photographed by Erick Vélez Sánchez
fig. h Erick Vélez Sánchez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54062788

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Vallesia glabra is native: Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru Mexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SouthwestArgentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBoliviaBrazil NorthColombiaParaguayPeru
Native distribution of Vallesia glabra, 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
Argentina Northwest AGW
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Colombia CLM
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Mexico Gulf MXG NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
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.

Flowering 62 in flower of 128 examined

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Vallesia glabra observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 62 of 128 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 7 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.

  • Rauvolfia glabra Cav.
  • Vallesia chiococcoides Kunth
  • Vallesia cymbifolia Ortega
  • Vallesia dichotoma Ruiz & Pav.
  • Vallesia glabra var. glabra
  • Vallesia inedita Guib.
  • Vallesia punctata Spreng.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.

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