Xylosma intermedia(Seem.) Triana & Planch.

WFO wfo-0000903888 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.

Xylosma intermedia, photographed by Francisco Farriols Sarabia
fig. a Francisco Farriols Sarabia, CC BY 4.0 / 2017-07-05 / obs. 8867575
Xylosma intermedia, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. b Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9487894
Xylosma intermedia, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. c Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30500326
Xylosma intermedia, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. d Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30500318
Xylosma intermedia, photographed by Francisco Farriols Sarabia
fig. e Francisco Farriols Sarabia, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 8867605
Xylosma intermedia, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. f Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11943527
Xylosma intermedia, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. g Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9487892
Xylosma intermedia, photographed by Francisco Farriols Sarabia
fig. h Francisco Farriols Sarabia, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 8867587

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 1807122
Filed as
Xylosma intermedia (Seem.) Triana & Planch.
Det. by
Sleumer, H. O.
Collected
Y. Mexia 1937-11-30
Origin
MX
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 17 botanical countries

Regions where Xylosma intermedia is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthColombiaCosta RicaEl SalvadorGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Xylosma intermedia, 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
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
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.

Also published as 15 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.

  • Craepaloprumnon racemosum (C.Presl) H.Karst.
  • Eichlerodendron calophyllum (Griseb.) Briq.
  • Eichlerodendron intermedium (Seem.) Sleumer
  • Eichlerodendron mexicanum Sleumer
  • Flacourtia calophylla Benth.
  • Flacourtia calophylla Benth. ex Eichler
  • Flacourtia racemosa C.Presl
  • Hisingera intermedia Seem.
  • Hisingera mexicana Planch. ex Hemsl.
  • Myroxylon callophyllum Kuntze
  • Myroxylon horridum (Rose) Standl.
  • Myroxylon intermedium (Seem.) Kuntze
  • Xylosma albida Lundell
  • Xylosma calophylla Griseb.
  • Xylosma excelsa 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.