Vitex lucens (Pūriri)

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Vitex lucens, photographed by Kelvin Perrie — fig. a Kelvin Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 191991714

Vitex lucens, photographed by naturewatchwidow — fig. c naturewatchwidow, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205024192

Vitex lucens, photographed by Doug Miller — fig. d Doug Miller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185327521

Vitex lucens, photographed by Christopher Stephens — fig. f Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 180552016

Vitex lucens, photographed by Joe Dillon — fig. g Joe Dillon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175983968

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Flowering n = 311 observations

Flowering observations of Vitex lucens by month
Month	Observations
Jan	15
Feb	9
Mar	13
Apr	31
May	30
Jun	41
Jul	41
Aug	35
Sep	37
Oct	28
Nov	15
Dec	16

Peak flowering in Jun, from 311 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 3 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.

Ephialis pentaphylla Banks & Sol. ex A.Cunn.
Vitex glabrata F.Muell.
Vitex littoralis A.Cunn.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.