Vitex cymosaBertero ex Spreng.

WFO wfo-0000333040 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 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.

Vitex cymosa, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. a Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / 2015-09-14 / obs. 31318506
Vitex cymosa, photographed by Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros
fig. b Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros, CC0 1.0 / obs. 59233472
Vitex cymosa, photographed by Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros
fig. c Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros, CC0 1.0 / obs. 59359154
Vitex cymosa, photographed by Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros
fig. d Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros, CC0 1.0 / obs. 59359189
Vitex cymosa, photographed by Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros
fig. e Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros, CC0 1.0 / obs. 59359199

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Vitex cymosa is native: Argentina Northeast, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Netherlands Antilles, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Southwest Caribbean, Venezuela Argentina NortheastBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorPanamáParaguayPeruSouthwest CaribbeanVenezuela Netherlands Antilles
Native distribution of Vitex cymosa, 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
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
Netherlands Antilles NLA
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Southwest Caribbean SWC
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 2 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.

  • Vitex cymosa f. albiflora Moldenke
  • Vitex discolor Glaz.

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.