Lacunaria crenata is a species of flowering plant in the family Ochnaceae, native from Central America to Brazil.

[2] Lacunaria crenata is native to Central America (Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua and Panama) and northern South America (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru,Suriname and Venezuela).

[1] As of  2023[update], Plants of the World Online accepted two subspecies:[1] Lacunaria panamensis was assessed as "endangered" in the 1998 IUCN Red List, where it is said to be native only to Costa Rica, Honduras, and Panama.

[3] As of February 2023[update], L. panamensis was regarded as a synonym of L. crenata subsp.

crenata, which has a much wider distribution, being found throughout the range of L.