Plate 1 figs. a–d · 2 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, 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.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Native range 6 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Argentina Northeast | AGE | SOUTHERN AMERICA |
| Bolivia | BOL | |
| Brazil North | BZN | |
| Brazil South | BZS | |
| Brazil Southeast | BZL | |
| Brazil West-Central | BZC |
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 80 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 9.2 °C | 12.7 °C | 14.6 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 23.7 °C | 27.8 °C | 30.8 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 1,444 mm | 1,748 mm | 2,260 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 51 mm | 173 mm | 393 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 80 research-grade observations of Aphelandra longiflora 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 21 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.
- Geissomeria ciliata Rizzini
- Geissomeria cincinnata Nees
- Geissomeria cincinnata var. redacta Rizzini
- Geissomeria dawsonii Leonard
- Geissomeria dichroa Rizzini
- Geissomeria distans Nees
- Geissomeria longiflora Salzm. ex Nees
- Geissomeria longiflora Lindl.
- Geissomeria longiflora var. acuta Nees
- Geissomeria longiflora var. monostachya Nees
- Geissomeria longiflora var. obtusa Nees
- Geissomeria longiflora var. paniculata Nees
- Geissomeria perbracteosa Rizzini
- Geissomeria pubescens Nees
- Geissomeria pubescens var. velutina Nees
- Geissomeria tetragona Lindau
- Poecilocnemis cincinnata Mart.
- Poecilocnemis multiflora Mart.
- Ruellia spicata Vell.
- Stenandrium speciosum Nees ex Mart.
- Stephanophysum attenuatum Mart.
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.