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Brunfelsia nitida; photograph Scott Zona from Miami, Florida, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BYScott Zona from Miami, Florida, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Brunfelsia nitida Benth.

Cuban raintree

Solanaceae · Cuba

No habitat climate
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About the genus · Brunfelsia

Brunfelsia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to subfamily Petunioideae of the nightshade family Solanaceae. The 50 or so species have been grouped into the three sections: Brunfelsia, Franciscea and Guianenses, which differ significantly in both distribution and characteristics, although molecular data have revealed that only two sections are natural (monophyletic), namely the Caribbean section Brunfelsia and a common section for all South American species. Linnaeus named the genus for the early German herbalist Otto Brunfels (1488–1534).

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Brunfelsia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 8 of the 10 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeCuba · introduced: Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker22.167, -79.333 · in the densest population, 5 records (50% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 10 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 9 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 6 km away. 30 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 8 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 10 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: scott.zona, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Danny S., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Brunfelsia 11 in the reference

Brunfelsia americana Brunfelsia americana Lady of the night Photo: CC BY, Guillaume DelaitreBrunfelsia australis Brunfelsia australis Paraguay jasmine Photo: CC BY, David F. BelmonteBrunfelsia brasiliensis Brunfelsia brasiliensis Solanaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, *Spatz* at de.wikipediaBrunfelsia densifolia Brunfelsia densifolia Serpentine Hill raintree Photo: CC BY, Giovanny VargasBrunfelsia grandiflora Brunfelsia grandiflora Largeflower brunfelsia Photo: CC BY, Eduardo Chacón MadrigalBrunfelsia lactea Brunfelsia lactea Vega blanca Photo: CC0, author not statedBrunfelsia latifolia Brunfelsia latifolia Solanaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, IxitixelBrunfelsia pauciflora Brunfelsia pauciflora Brazil raintree Photo: CC BY, Ben CostamagnaBrunfelsia portoricensis Brunfelsia portoricensis Puerto Rico raintree Photo: CC BY, Cricket RaspetBrunfelsia undulata Brunfelsia undulata Jamaican raintree Photo: CC BY-SA, Bernard LoisonBrunfelsia uniflora Brunfelsia uniflora Manaca Photo: CC BY, Diogo Luiz

Names & registers

Also known as Brunfelsia longituba; Brunfelsia parviflora; Brunfelsia parvifolia. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Solanaceae
Described by
Benth.
Native to
Cuba
Wild records
10 in range · 9 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 5 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (5 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 15 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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