Adenandra villosaLichtst. ex Roem. & Schult.

hairy chinaflower

WFO wfo-0000519823 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Adenandra villosa, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-01-06 / obs. 175737187
Adenandra villosa, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 175800199
Adenandra villosa, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 175427470
Adenandra villosa, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 167457497
Adenandra villosa, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 162142420
Adenandra villosa, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 173486554
Adenandra villosa, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 173486837
Adenandra villosa, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 107594772

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000199189
Filed as
Adenandra villosa (P.J.Bergius) Licht. ex Roem. & Schult.
Det. by
Strid, A.
Collected
MacOwan 1882-09-01
Origin
ZA
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Adenandra villosa is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Adenandra villosa, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 241 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 6.8 °C 10.7 °C 13.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 19.1 °C 19.9 °C 23.8 °C
Annual rainfall 772 mm 1,128 mm 1,548 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 76 mm 104 mm 161 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 241 research-grade observations of Adenandra villosa that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 50 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Adenandra acuminata Sweet
  • Adenandra amoena Bartl. & H.L.Wendl.
  • Adenandra biseriata E.Mey. ex Bartl. & Wendl.
  • Adenandra biseriata E.Mey. ex Bartl. & H.L.Wendl.
  • Adenandra brachyphylla var. glandulosa Sond.
  • Adenandra calycina Steud.
  • Adenandra ciliata Sond.
  • Adenandra cistoides Eckl. & Zeyh.
  • Adenandra coriacea H.L.Wendl. & Bartl.
  • Adenandra coriacea Bartl. & H.L.Wendl.
  • Adenandra crenata Willd. ex Bartl. & H.L.Wendl.
  • Adenandra cuspidata E.Mey. ex Bartl. & H.L.Wendl.
  • Adenandra cuspidata var. glabra Sond.
  • Adenandra cuspidata var. villosa (P.J.Bergius) Sond.
  • Adenandra glandulosa Roem. & Schultes
  • Adenandra glandulosa Lichtst. ex Roem. & Schult.
  • Adenandra kraussii Meisn.
  • Adenandra pubescens Sond.
  • Adenandra rugosa Otto ex Steud.
  • Adenandra schmidtiana (Tausch) Steud.
  • Adenandra sonderi Dümmer
  • Adenandra sonderi var. glabricalyx Dummer
  • Adenandra speciosa (Sims) Link
  • Adenandra sub-pubescens Sond.

and 26 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.