Varronia cylindristachyaRuiz & Pav.

WFO wfo-0000420807 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Varronia cylindristachya, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. a Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-09 / obs. 187194767
Varronia cylindristachya, photographed by Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández
fig. b Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165898234
Varronia cylindristachya, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. c Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149022001
Varronia cylindristachya, photographed by margaritarestrepou
fig. d margaritarestrepou, CC0 1.0 / obs. 112038068
Varronia cylindristachya, photographed by Sergio Hernando Álvarez Garnica
fig. e Sergio Hernando Álvarez Garnica, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 16943233
Varronia cylindristachya, photographed by julianazuluaga-carrero
fig. f julianazuluaga-carrero, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 205013243
Varronia cylindristachya, photographed by julianazuluaga-carrero
fig. g julianazuluaga-carrero, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 198215228
Varronia cylindristachya, photographed by julianazuluaga-carrero
fig. h julianazuluaga-carrero, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 186491604

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Varronia cylindristachya is native: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles BoliviaColombiaEcuadorPeruVenezuela Venezuelan Antilles
Native distribution of Varronia cylindristachya, 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
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA

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.

  • Cordia caracasana DC.
  • Cordia caracasana var. velutina Britton
  • Cordia cylindrostachya (Ruiz & Pav.) Roem. & Schult.
  • Cordia cylindrostachya var. floribunda (Desv.) Griseb.
  • Cordia floribunda (Desv.) Spreng.
  • Cordia humboldtii Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.
  • Cordia lanata Kunth
  • Cordia linearicalycina Killip ex J.Estrada
  • Cordia llanense Killip ex J.Estrada
  • Cordia macrostachya (Ruiz & Pav.) Spreng.
  • Cordia rubescens J.Estrada
  • Cordia subserrata K.Krause
  • Cordia tarmensis K.Krause
  • Lithocardium caracasanum (A.DC.) Kuntze
  • Lithocardium cylindristachyum Kuntze
  • Montjolya cylindristachya (Ruiz & Pav.) Friesen
  • Montjolya floribunda Friesen
  • Montjolya macrostachya Friesen
  • Montjolya mollis Friesen
  • Varronia caracasana (DC.) Borhidi
  • Varronia floribunda Desv.
  • Varronia humboldtii Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.
  • Varronia lanata (Kunth) Borhidi

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.

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