Xylopia brasiliensisSpreng.

WFO wfo-0000428881 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Xylopia brasiliensis, photographed by Cajá-manga
fig. a Cajá-manga, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-15 / obs. 176291819
Xylopia brasiliensis, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. b Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145722757
Xylopia brasiliensis, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. c Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145722591
Xylopia brasiliensis, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. d Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117669559
Xylopia brasiliensis, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. e Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117668407
Xylopia brasiliensis, photographed by Lera Miles
fig. f Lera Miles, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56159578
Xylopia brasiliensis, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. g Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117669333
Xylopia brasiliensis, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. h Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117668609

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Xylopia brasiliensis is native: Argentina Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Paraguay Argentina NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastParaguay
Native distribution of Xylopia brasiliensis, 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
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Paraguay PAR

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 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.

  • Xylopia brasiliensis var. gracilis R.E.Fr.
  • Xylopia gracilis (R.E.Fr.) R.E.Fr.
  • Xylopia parvifolia Schltdl.
  • Xylopicrum brasiliense (Spreng.) Kuntze
  • Xylopicrum parvifolium (Schltdl.) Kuntze

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.