Allmania nodiflora(L.) R.Br. ex Wight

WFO wfo-0000526239 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Allmania nodiflora, photographed by Paulmathi Vinod
fig. a Paulmathi Vinod, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-27 / obs. 168215674
Allmania nodiflora, photographed by Abu Hamas
fig. b Abu Hamas, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 59640456
Allmania nodiflora, photographed by Swarochi Tathagath
fig. c Swarochi Tathagath, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158353713
Allmania nodiflora, photographed by Swarochi Tathagath
fig. d Swarochi Tathagath, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158352993
Allmania nodiflora, photographed by Mittal Gala
fig. e Mittal Gala, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 96189493
Allmania nodiflora, photographed by Mittal Gala
fig. f Mittal Gala, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 95497650
Allmania nodiflora, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. g Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61418602
Allmania nodiflora, photographed by Swarochi Tathagath
fig. h Swarochi Tathagath, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99619709

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Allmania nodiflora is native: China Southeast, Hainan, Assam, Borneo, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China SoutheastHainanAssamBorneoEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMyanmarPhilippinesSri LankaSumateraThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Allmania nodiflora, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Borneo BOR
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China Southeast CHS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Hainan CHH

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 47 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 14.8 °C 15.6 °C 23.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 31.0 °C 37.2 °C 37.8 °C
Annual rainfall 642 mm 863 mm 1,499 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 14 mm 19 mm 132 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 47 research-grade observations of Allmania nodiflora 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 32 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.

  • Achyranthes mucronata Herb. ex Moq.
  • Achyranthes nodiflora (Willd.) Roxb.
  • Allmania albida (Willd.) R.Br. ex Hook.f.
  • Allmania aspera (Roth) Wight
  • Allmania dichotoma (Roth) Wight
  • Allmania longipedunculata (Trimen) Gamble
  • Allmania nodiflora var. angustifolia Hook.f.
  • Allmania nodiflora var. aspera (Roth) Hook.f.
  • Allmania nodiflora var. depauperata Boreilly
  • Allmania nodiflora var. dichotoma (B.Heyne ex Roth) Hook.f.
  • Allmania nodiflora var. esculenta (Moq.) Hook.f.
  • Allmania nodiflora var. longipedunculata Trimen
  • Allmania nodiflora var. procumbens Ridl.
  • Allmania procumbens Wight ex Hook.f.
  • Belutta peduncularis Raf.
  • Belutta sessilis Raf.
  • Celosia albida Willd.
  • Celosia aspera Roth
  • Celosia dichotoma B.Heyne
  • Celosia mucronata Herb. ex Moq.
  • Celosia nodiflora L.
  • Celosia pallida Hort.Vindob. ex Moq.
  • Chamissoa albida (R.Br. ex Hook.f.) Moq.
  • Chamissoa albida Mart.

and 8 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. 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.