Firebush (Hamelia patens)

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Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name: Hamelia patens Jacq.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.: Hamelia patens
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.: Jacq.
Common names: Firebush, Mexican Firecracker, Scarletbush, redhead
Names in other languages (31)
Amélia, Anavaco, Ashiluna muyu, Buzunuco, Cafetillo, Coralillo, Cuseje’cho, Deshierba conuco, Fosforillo, Jimiájimias, Llaga panka, Mariposa panka, Ongay, Tisiku panka, Tuta pishku panka, Uvero, Vuurbos, Wipenimo, Yana muyu, Zorrillo real, chac-loc, hamélia odstávajúca, kolibrintulipensas, mato-de-oreção, trompetilla, valmoura, Гамелия отклоненная, המליה מבודרת, ประทัดไต้หวัน, 醉嬌花, 長隔木 (希美利)
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).: Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.: Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).: Gentianales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).: Rubiaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.: Hamelia
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.: patens
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.: species
Reference species: Hamelia patens
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.: accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.: Least concern (LC)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-09 10:53.

Photo of Hamelia patens Jacq. — Photo: kristen_276 · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-09 10:53.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 1 of 13 has its flowers visited by × 12 more types with data for this species

Flower visit

has its flowers visited by 121 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented
Zebra Longwing Heliconius charithonia Nymphalidae	has its flowers visited by	81	not compared
81 sources · 84 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1789581 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Record contexts (sample): no place published · July 18, 2015 · Human observation; no place published · July 18, 2015 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/28530807 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Record contexts (sample): no place published · July 8, 2019 · Human observation; no place published · July 8, 2019 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/28770682 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Record contexts (sample): no place published · Feb. 28, 2017 · Human observation; no place published · Feb. 28, 2017 · Human observation Ollerton, J., Trunschke, J. ., Havens, K. ., Landaverde-González, P. ., Keller, A. ., Gilpin, A.-M. ., Rodrigo Rech, A. ., Baronio, G. J. ., Phillips, B. J., Mackin, C. ., Stanley, D. A., Treanore, E. ., Baker, E. ., Rotheray, E. L., Erickson, E. ., Fornoff, F. ., Brearley, F. Q… Published in globalbioticinteractions/ollerton2022 Context: no place published · no date published https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4875305 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Jan. 9, 2016 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/210533474 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 27, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5278822 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · March 10, 2017 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5915814 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 22, 2017 · Human observation And 73 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Green Orchid Bee Euglossa dilemma Apidae	has its flowers visited by	56	not compared
56 sources · 58 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/15215870 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Record contexts (sample): no place published · Sept. 18, 2015 · Human observation; no place published · Sept. 18, 2015 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/32468857 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Record contexts (sample): no place published · Sept. 10, 2019 · Human observation; no place published · Sept. 10, 2019 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1789583 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 18, 2015 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/102425345 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Dec. 3, 2021 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1854170 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 26, 2013 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/103417517 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Dec. 16, 2021 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/7562792 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 19, 2017 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/317075678 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Sept. 27, 2025 · Human observation And 48 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae	has its flowers visited by	51	not compared
51 sources · 51 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/109717751 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 11, 2021 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/314545572 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 17, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/222671026 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 14, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/11486531 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 27, 2018 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/14906272 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 29, 2018 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/14906414 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 29, 2018 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/229261191 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 14, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/16352838 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Sept. 7, 2018 · Human observation And 43 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Orange-barred Sulphur Phoebis philea Pieridae	has its flowers visited by	49	not compared
49 sources · 49 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/206470214 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 10, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/206470580 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 10, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/106173229 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Nov. 21, 2021 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4153091 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 25, 2016 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4220287 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 26, 2016 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/208764488 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 14, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/308295818 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 22, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/309068415 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 29, 2025 · Human observation And 41 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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Interaction data from Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI), GloBI 0.11. Each row keeps the citation its own study published.

Interactions are published at species level: they are not resolved by variety or race.

Each block is headed by the source's own term, read from this species' end — not by a category of ours. Two similar terms are not merged.

«Documented here» means the interaction was observed in this territory. It is not evidence that the species is here, and it does not enter the niche model.

Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.