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Sophora toromiro; photograph (c) Patricio Novoa, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Patricio Novoa, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 1934-06-15

Sophora toromiro (Phil.) Skottsb.

Toromiro; Toromiro tree

Fabaceae

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Sophora toromiro, photograph Torbenbrinker, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSophora toromiro, photograph Tangopaso, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsSophora toromiro, photograph Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsSophora toromiro, photograph David Eickhoff from Pearl City, Hawaii, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSophora toromiro, photograph David Eickhoff from Pearl City, Hawaii, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSophora toromiro, photograph Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons 13 photographs ›

Summary

Sophora toromiro, commonly known as toromiro, is a species of flowering tree in the legume family, Fabaceae, that is endemic to Easter Island. Sophora toromiro is extinct in the wild due to overharvesting and overgrazing, but some individuals survive in botanical and private collections. It holds significant cultural importance for the Rapa Nui people, known for its statues, ceremonial objects, and other tools made from the wood. The species serves as proof that human intervention of a natural environment can drastically change the composition of native flora negatively, even to the point of extinction in the wild. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Sophora toromiro", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Sophora

Sophora is a genus of about 45 species of small trees and shrubs in the pea family Fabaceae. The species have a pantropical distribution. The generic name is derived from sophera, an Arabic name for a pea-flowered tree.

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived. 5 of the 6 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

No native range: WCVP lists no region where it is native.
Openly licensed records, not tested against the stated range, framed on where they fall.
NativeWCVP lists no region where it is native; the regions it does list are named here.
Extinct inEaster Is. · recorded as extinct by WCVP: history, not habitat; no records are tested against these regions
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo verified native range for this name: WCVP has no entry with native status, and a checklist that only reports presence cannot tell a wild record from a garden one. The map shows 5 openly licensed records of 6 untested against any range; no map marker or climate is derived from them, and no sheet is built from them. 5 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.

Photographs

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Photographs: Torbenbrinker, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Tangopaso, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; David Eickhoff from Pearl City, Hawaii, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Sophora 20 in the reference

Sophora alopecuroides Sophora alopecuroides Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Islam GalymzhanovSophora cassioides Sophora cassioides Fabaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Bruno AlzugaraySophora chathamica Sophora chathamica Coastal Kōwhai Photo: CC BY, Tom BeardSophora chrysophylla Sophora chrysophylla Mamani Photo: CC0, author not statedSophora davidii Sophora davidii Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Jay PruettSophora fernandeziana Sophora fernandeziana Fabaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedSophora flavescens Sophora flavescens Shrubby sophora Photo: CC BY, Violetta DzizyurovaSophora fraseri Sophora fraseri Brush sophora Photo: CC BY, Gordon CocksSophora fulvida Sophora fulvida Waitakere Kowhai Photo: CC BY, DwayneSophora godleyi Sophora godleyi Godley’s Kōwhai Photo: CC BY-SA, Christopher StephensSophora howinsula Sophora howinsula Lord Howe Kowhai Photo: CC BY, ian_mcallanSophora longicarinata Sophora longicarinata Fabaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Christopher Stephens all 21 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Edwardsia toromiro. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Fabaceae
Described by
(Phil.) Skottsb.
Native to
not verified
Records
6 georeferenced · 5 open · range not tested

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 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry lists no native region
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Sophora toromiro (Phil.) Skottsb. (the item's: IPNI 1082374-2, POWO 518957-1)
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 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 answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 5 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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