Voyria flavescensGriseb.

WFO wfo-0000421264 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 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.

Voyria flavescens, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. a Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / 2017-08-02 / obs. 21439351
Voyria flavescens, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. b Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 21439355
Voyria flavescens, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. c Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 21439339
Voyria flavescens, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. d Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 21439344
Voyria flavescens, photographed by geralg
fig. e geralg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 113331708
Voyria flavescens, photographed by geralg
fig. f geralg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 113331720

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Voyria flavescens is native: Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela Mexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SoutheastColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorFrench GuianaPanamáPeruSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela
Native distribution of Voyria flavescens, 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
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil Southeast BZL
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Southeast MXT NORTHERN AMERICA
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 64 in flower of 64 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Voyria flavescens 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. 64 of 64 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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 5 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.

  • Disadena flavescens (Griseb.) Miq.
  • Leiphaimos flavescens (Griseb.) Gilg
  • Leiphaimos pittieri Standl.
  • Voyria bilobata A.Robyns
  • Voyria pittieri (Standl.) L.O.Williams

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.