Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Duranta erecta
cuentas de oro, San Jacinto, golden dewdrops, Brazilian sky-flower , pigeon-berry
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Lamiales
Family
Verbenaceae
Genus
Duranta
Species
erecta
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Duranta plumieri, D. repens L., D. repens var. microphylla, D. repens var. repens fide Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden (2010).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
- Adsersen, H. (s.a.) Field notes, 1974 and 1977 collections Charles darwin Research Station, unpublished Manuscript.
- Adsersen, H. (s.a.) Personal observations Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished Manuscript.
- D'Arcy, W.G. (1987) Flora of Panama. Checklist and Index. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 17(1): i–xxx, 1–328; 18(2): i–ix, 1–672.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical Garden (eds.) (2013) The Plant List, Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1st January).
- Robinson, B.L. (1902) Flora of the Galapagos Islands. Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Expedition to the Galapgaos Islands. Proc. Amer. Acad. 38(4): 78-270.
- Stewart, A. (1911) A botanical survey of the Galápagos Islands. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 4th Series, 1: 7-288.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Duranta erecta", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=16238. Accessed 8 July 2025.