Zanthoxylum flavumVahl

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WFO wfo-0000429509 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Zanthoxylum flavum, photographed by Yolanda M. Leon
fig. a Yolanda M. Leon, CC0 1.0 / 2021-01-19 / obs. 110656302
Zanthoxylum flavum, photographed by Steven Bachman
fig. b Steven Bachman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 969962
Zanthoxylum flavum, photographed by Yolanda M. Leon
fig. c Yolanda M. Leon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 110656320
Zanthoxylum flavum, photographed by Steven Bachman
fig. d Steven Bachman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 969970
Zanthoxylum flavum, photographed by Yolanda M. Leon
fig. e Yolanda M. Leon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 110656338
Zanthoxylum flavum, photographed by Heather Mazzaccaro
fig. f Heather Mazzaccaro, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43843764
Zanthoxylum flavum, photographed by Heather Mazzaccaro
fig. g Heather Mazzaccaro, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43272739
Zanthoxylum flavum, photographed by Heather Mazzaccaro
fig. h Heather Mazzaccaro, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43272770

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Native range 17 botanical countries

Regions where Zanthoxylum flavum is native: Florida, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is. FloridaMexico GulfMexico SoutheastCubaDominican RepublicHaitiJamaicaPuerto RicoSouthwest Caribbean BahamasBermudaCayman Is.Leeward Is.Netherlands AntillesTurks-Caicos Is.Venezuelan AntillesWindward Is.
Native distribution of Zanthoxylum flavum, 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
Bahamas BAH SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bermuda BER
Cayman Is. CAY
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Haiti HAI
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Netherlands Antilles NLA
Puerto Rico PUE
Southwest Caribbean SWC
Turks-Caicos Is. TCI
Venezuelan Antilles VNA
Windward Is. WIN
Florida FLA NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Southeast MXT

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 13 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.

  • Fagara dictyophylla Urb.
  • Fagara duplicipunctata Krug & Urb.
  • Fagara flava (Vahl) Krug & Urb.
  • Fagara organosia Urb.
  • Fagara pistacifolia Krug & Urb.
  • Zanthoxylum caribaeum var. floridanum (Nutt.) A.Gray
  • Zanthoxylum cribosum Spreng.
  • Zanthoxylum dictyophyllum (Urb.) Alain
  • Zanthoxylum duplicipunctatum C.Wright ex Griseb.
  • Zanthoxylum floridanum Nutt.
  • Zanthoxylum organosium (Urb.) Alain
  • Zanthoxylum pistaciifolium Griseb.
  • Zanthoxylum trichilioides Standl.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.