Baccharoides adoensis(Sch.Bip. ex Walp.) H.Rob.

WFO wfo-0000085440 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.

Baccharoides adoensis, photographed by Mark Liptrot
fig. a Mark Liptrot, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-04-29 / obs. 194641048
Baccharoides adoensis, photographed by grabbarg
fig. b grabbarg, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 17785631
Baccharoides adoensis, photographed by grabbarg
fig. c grabbarg, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 17785648
Baccharoides adoensis, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. d Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192965227
Baccharoides adoensis, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. e Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120284234
Baccharoides adoensis, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. f Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 45750378
Baccharoides adoensis, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. g Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 110748507
Baccharoides adoensis, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. h Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192965445

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Native range 27 botanical countries

Regions where Baccharoides adoensis is native: Benin, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, DR Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Senegal, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe BeninBurkinaBurundiCameroonCentral African RepublicChadDR CongoEritreaEswatiniEthiopiaGuineaKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMalawiMaliMauritaniaMozambiqueNigeriaNorthern ProvincesRwandaSenegalSudan-South SudanTanzaniaTogoUgandaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Baccharoides adoensis, 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
Burkina BKN
Burundi BUR
Cameroon CMN
Central African Republic CAF
Chad CHA
DR Congo ZAI
Eritrea ERI
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Guinea GUI
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Malawi MLW
Mali MLI
Mauritania MTN
Mozambique MOZ
Nigeria NGA
Northern Provinces TVL
Rwanda RWA
Senegal SEN
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Togo TOG
Uganda UGA
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 145 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 5.3 °C 9.4 °C 17.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.4 °C 26.7 °C 30.5 °C
Annual rainfall 777 mm 992 mm 4,234 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 2 mm 51 mm 149 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 145 research-grade observations of Baccharoides adoensis 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 33 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.

  • Ascaricida adoensis Steetz
  • Ascaricida kotschyana Steetz
  • Ascaricida mossambiquensis Steetz
  • Ascaricida richardii Steetz
  • Cacalia adoensis Kuntze
  • Cacalia grantii Kuntze
  • Cacalia kotschyana Kuntze
  • Cacalia shirensis Kuntze
  • Cacalia tigrensis Kuntze
  • Candidea grantii Stapf
  • Vernonia adoensis Sch.Bip. ex Walp.
  • Vernonia adoensis var. kotschyana (Sch.Bip. ex Walp.) G.V.Pope
  • Vernonia adoensis var. mossambiquensis (Steetz) G.V.Pope
  • Vernonia bequaertii De Wild.
  • Vernonia fulviseta S.Moore
  • Vernonia goetzei Muschl.
  • Vernonia goetzei Muschler
  • Vernonia grantii Oliv.
  • Vernonia integra S.Moore
  • Vernonia kotschyana Sch.Bip. ex Walp.
  • Vernonia kotschyi Sch.Bip. ex Schweinf.
  • Vernonia leptolepis Baker
  • Vernonia leptolepis Bak.
  • Vernonia macrocephala A.Rich.

and 9 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.