Amphibolis antarctica

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Amphibolis antarctica, photographed by Debra Baker — fig. b Debra Baker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186486500

Amphibolis antarctica, photographed by Helium Luo — fig. c Helium Luo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170977616

Amphibolis antarctica, photographed by Tim — fig. d Tim, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 111321451

Amphibolis antarctica, photographed by Andrew Allen — fig. e Andrew Allen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109615031

Amphibolis antarctica, photographed by Rod Lowther — fig. g Rod Lowther, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 83515574

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium: Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession: US 2126179
Filed as: Amphibolis antarctica (Labill.) Asch.
Det. by: Hartog, C. den
Collected: Capt. Pasco 1893
Origin: AU
The sheet: View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,193 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	8.7 °C	9.7 °C	11.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	19.9 °C	23.4 °C	26.3 °C
Annual rainfall	494 mm	586 mm	896 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	37 mm	61 mm	144 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 1,193 research-grade observations of Amphibolis antarctica 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.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

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. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.