Anacampseros arachnoides

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Anacampseros arachnoides, photographed by Ludwig Muller — fig. b Ludwig Muller, CC0 1.0 / obs. 108496550

Anacampseros arachnoides, photographed by Tony Rebelo — fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 16032186

Anacampseros arachnoides, photographed by Nicola van Berkel — fig. d Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15504701

Anacampseros arachnoides, photographed by Christiaan Viljoen — fig. g Christiaan Viljoen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114056732

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Native distribution of Anacampseros arachnoides, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Cape Provinces	CPP	AFRICA
Lesotho	LES

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 191 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	4.2 °C	5.9 °C	9.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	27.0 °C	29.5 °C	31.2 °C
Annual rainfall	254 mm	392 mm	576 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	29 mm	62 mm	93 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 191 research-grade observations of Anacampseros arachnoides 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 15 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.

Anacampseros arachnoides var. hispidula (A.Berger) A.Berger ex Poelln.
Anacampseros arachnoides var. rubens (Haw.) Sond.
Anacampseros depauperata (A.Berger) Poelln.
Anacampseros filamentosa var. depauperata A.Berger
Anacampseros gracilis Poelln.
Anacampseros hispidula A.Berger
Anacampseros rubens (Haw.) Sweet
Anacampseros rubroviridis Poelln.
Anacampseros schoenlandii Poelln.
Portulaca arachnoides Haw.
Portulaca rubens Haw.
Ruelingia arachnoides (Haw.) Haw.
Ruelingia rubens (Haw.) Haw.
Talinum arachnoides (Haw.) W.T.Aiton
Talinum rubens Steud.

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.
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.