Warszewiczia coccinea(Vahl) Klotzsch

WFO wfo-0000333885 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Warszewiczia coccinea, photographed by Andrew Quitmeyer
fig. a Andrew Quitmeyer, CC0 1.0 / 2022-02-04 / obs. 178572691
Warszewiczia coccinea, photographed by Sue Carnahan
fig. b Sue Carnahan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177590772
Warszewiczia coccinea, photographed by desertnaturalist
fig. c desertnaturalist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119532418
Warszewiczia coccinea, photographed by Martha Lucia Ortiz-Moreno
fig. d Martha Lucia Ortiz-Moreno, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114125571
Warszewiczia coccinea, photographed by GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ
fig. e GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109673058
Warszewiczia coccinea, photographed by Daniel van der Post
fig. f Daniel van der Post, CC0 1.0 / obs. 38823655
Warszewiczia coccinea, photographed by Daniel A. Monsalve Ortiz
fig. g Daniel A. Monsalve Ortiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 4530120
Warszewiczia coccinea, photographed by Oscar Marín
fig. h Oscar Marín, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 29966329

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Warszewiczia coccinea is native: Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is. BoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorFrench GuianaGuyanaNicaraguaPanamáPeruSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela Windward Is.
Native distribution of Warszewiczia coccinea, 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
Brazil North BZN
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guyana GUY
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN

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 58 in flower of 68 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Warszewiczia coccinea 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. 58 of 68 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 10 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.

  • Aegiphila macrophylla Sieber ex Schauer
  • Calycophyllum coccineum (Vahl) DC.
  • Macrocnemum coccineum Vahl
  • Mussaenda coccinea (Vahl) Poir.
  • Warszewiczia macrophylla Wedd.
  • Warszewiczia maynensis Wedd.
  • Warszewiczia poeppigiana Klotzsch
  • Warszewiczia pulcherrima Klotzsch
  • Warszewiczia schomburgkiana Klotzsch
  • Warszewiczia splendens Wedd.

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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