Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Varronia polycephala
Arquina, brazo de negro, maiztostado
Shrub, 5m tall, with sessile flowers and rusty brown hairs on the fruit. The lobes are short the fruit is bright red (Acevedo-Rodríguez, 1996).
Common in open areas.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Lamiales
Family
Boraginaceae
Genus
Varronia
Species
polycephala
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Cordia polycephala (Lam.) I. Johns; Syn.: Cordia corymbosa (Desv.) G. Don
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: The native range of this species is S. Mexico to Tropical America (POWO, 2023).
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2022) Plants of the world online POWO (2022): Plants of the world online. Published on the Internet; Https://powo.science.kew.org/
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
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"Galapagos Species Database, Varronia polycephala", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=25052. Accessed 5 June 2026.