Aganope stuhlmannii(Taub.) Adema

WFO wfo-0001033792 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Aganope stuhlmannii, photographed by i_c_riddell
fig. a i_c_riddell, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-07-27 / obs. 22558753
Aganope stuhlmannii, photographed by i_c_riddell
fig. b i_c_riddell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 22558758
Aganope stuhlmannii, photographed by i_c_riddell
fig. c i_c_riddell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 22558742
Aganope stuhlmannii, photographed by i_c_riddell
fig. d i_c_riddell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 22558746

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Native range 25 botanical countries

Regions where Aganope stuhlmannii is native: Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Caprivi Strip, DR Congo, Eswatini, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe BeninBotswanaBurkinaBurundiCaprivi StripDR CongoEswatiniGabonGambiaGhanaGuineaGuinea-BissauIvory CoastKenyaMalawiMaliMozambiqueNigeriaNorthern ProvincesSenegalSierra LeoneTanzaniaTogoZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Aganope stuhlmannii, 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
Benin BEN AFRICA
Botswana BOT
Burkina BKN
Burundi BUR
Caprivi Strip CPV
DR Congo ZAI
Eswatini SWZ
Gabon GAB
Gambia GAM
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Guinea-Bissau GNB
Ivory Coast IVO
Kenya KEN
Malawi MLW
Mali MLI
Mozambique MOZ
Nigeria NGA
Northern Provinces TVL
Senegal SEN
Sierra Leone SIE
Tanzania TAN
Togo TOG
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM

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 49 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 10.5 °C 12.1 °C 19.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 30.9 °C 32.1 °C 37.9 °C
Annual rainfall 476 mm 581 mm 1,085 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 1 mm 17 mm 29 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 49 research-grade observations of Aganope stuhlmannii 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 7 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.

  • Deguelia stuhlmannii Taub.
  • Derris stuhlmannii (Taub.) Harms
  • Lonchocarpus argenteus A.Chev.
  • Ostryoderris chevalieri Dunn
  • Ostryoderris stuhlmannii (Taub.) Dunn ex Harms
  • Xeroderris chevalieri (Dunn) Roberty
  • Xeroderris stuhlmannii (Taub.) Mendonça & E.P.Sousa

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. 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.