- Family:
- Malpighiaceae Juss.
Malpighia Plum. ex L.

Native to:
Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, Windward Is.
Introduced into:
Bangladesh, Jawa, Laos, Marianas, New Caledonia, Peru
- Malpighia acunana Borhidi & O.Muñiz
- Malpighia acutifolia F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia adamsii Vivaldi
- Malpighia albiflora (Cuatrec.) Cuatrec.
- Malpighia apiculata Urb.
- Malpighia aquifolia L.
- Malpighia arborescens F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia articulata F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia aurea F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia bahamensis F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia baracoensis F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia bissei F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia cajalbanensis F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia caribaea F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia cauliflora Proctor & Vivaldi
- Malpighia cnide Spreng.
- Malpighia coccigera L.
- Malpighia cornistipulata F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia cristalensis (F.K.Mey.) F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia cubensis Kunth
- Malpighia cuneiformis F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia davilae W.R.Anderson
- Malpighia dentata F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia diversifolia Brandegee
- Malpighia dura F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia emarginata DC.
- Malpighia emiliae W.R.Anderson
- Malpighia epedunculata F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia erinacea F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia fucata Ker Gawl.
- Malpighia galeottiana A.Juss.
- Malpighia glabra L.
- Malpighia granitica F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia habanensis F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia harrisii Small
- Malpighia higueyensis F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia hintonii Bullock
- Malpighia hispaniolica F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia hondurensis F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia horrida Small
- Malpighia humilis F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia incana Mill.
- Malpighia infestissima (L.C.Rich. ex A.Juss.) Nied.
- Malpighia jaguensis F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia latifolia F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia leticiana (W.R.Anderson) W.R.Anderson & C.Davis
- Malpighia linearifolia F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia linearis Jacq.
- Malpighia longifolia F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia lundellii C.V.Morton
- Malpighia macracantha Urb. & Nied.
- Malpighia macrocarpa F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia manacensis F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia martiana Acuña & Roíg
- Malpighia martinicensis Jacq.
- Malpighia maxima F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia megacantha (A.Juss.) Urb.
- Malpighia mexicana A.Juss.
- Malpighia meyeriana P.A.González
- Malpighia micropetala Urb.
- Malpighia moncionensis F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia montecristensis F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia mucronata F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia multiflora F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia mutabilis F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia nayaritensis (Vivaldi) F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia neglecta F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia novogaliciana W.R.Anderson
- Malpighia nummulariifolia Nied.
- Malpighia obtusifolia Proctor
- Malpighia ophiticola F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia ovata Rose
- Malpighia oxycocca Griseb.
- Malpighia pallidior F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia pasorealensis F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia polytricha A.Juss.
- Malpighia proctorii Vivaldi
- Malpighia pusillifolia (Ekman & Nied.) F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia racemiflora F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia racemosa F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia revoluta F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia reyensis F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia roigiana Borhidi & O.Muñiz
- Malpighia romeroana Cuatrec.
- Malpighia rzedowskii W.R.Anderson
- Malpighia serpentinicola F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia sessilifolia W.R.Anderson
- Malpighia setosa Spreng.
- Malpighia souzae Miranda
- Malpighia spathulifolia F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia squarrosa F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia stevensii W.R.Anderson
- Malpighia suberosa Small
- Malpighia subpilosa F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia tomentosa Pav. ex Moric.
- Malpighia torulosa F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia tunensis F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia urens L.
- Malpighia variifolia Turcz.
- Malpighia velutina Ekman & Urb.
- Malpighia verruculosa W.R.Anderson
- Malpighia vertientensis F.K.Mey.
- Malpighia watsonii Rose
- Malpighia wendtii W.R.Anderson
- Malpighia wilburiorum W.R.Anderson
- Malpighia woodburyana Vivaldi
- Malpighia wrightiana Acuña & Roíg
- Malpighia yucatanaea F.K.Mey.
Malpighia Plum. ex L. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Plowman, T. [5473], Peru | 44853.000 | No | |||
Rico, L. [2028], Mexico | K000266009 | No |
First published in Sp. Pl.: 425 (1753)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6 Scientific Data 8: 215.
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0