Flora e Funga do Brasil
Primary source
Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro (Reflora)
The Brazilian national flora authority - the official, continuously-updated checklist of the plants, algae, and fungi of Brazil maintained by the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden under the Reflora programme. Plotwright’s region-appropriate native-status + taxonomy reference for Brazilian flora.
What you'll find here
Brazilian native-status confirmation
Accepted name in the Brazilian flora
Endemism + Brazilian distribution context
Region-appropriate authority for Brazilian plants
Specific data we draw from it: accepted name (Brazilian flora), native vs cultivated status in Brazil, endemism flag, Brazilian regional distribution.
Good to know
Native vs cultivated in Brazil. A plant widely grown in Brazilian gardens is not necessarily Brazilian-native; use Flora e Funga do Brasil to separate genuine native/endemic status from naturalised or cultivated presence.
How to cite this source
Cite the specific taxon page, https://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/FB<taxonid>, with the JBRJ attribution (Flora e Funga do Brasil. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro). Get the taxonid from the public taxon service (https://servicos.jbrj.gov.br/flora/taxon/<Scientific%20name>), which returns it directly. Do NOT cite the site root: it names the database rather than the record, so it cannot support a claim about one species, and 16 plant records did exactly that until 2026-09-15.
License
Flora e Funga do Brasil data is published by JBRJ under CC BY (Reflora); factual taxonomy + distribution require attribution to JBRJ.
Caution
A native-flora checklist, not a cultivation guide - it documents what is native to and recorded in Brazil, not how to grow it. The HTML site sits behind an Anubis proof-of-work challenge, so automated readers get a 4,439-byte "not a bot" page instead of the record; the taxon service answers them normally and is what the drift watcher reads. This entry previously said the taxon service was "frequently unreachable" and used that to justify citing the homepage - measured 2026-09-15, 52 consecutive requests across 18 species returned 200 with no failures, so that reason no longer holds.
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