Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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 64 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Angola | ANG | AFRICA |
| Burundi | BUR | |
| Cameroon | CMN | |
| Central African Republic | CAF | |
| Comoros | COM | |
| Congo | CON | |
| DR Congo | ZAI | |
| Ethiopia | ETH | |
| Gabon | GAB | |
| Ghana | GHA | |
| Guinea | GUI | |
| Gulf of Guinea Is. | GGI | |
| Ivory Coast | IVO | |
| Kenya | KEN | |
| Liberia | LBR | |
| Madagascar | MDG | |
| Malawi | MLW | |
| Mauritius | MAU | |
| Mozambique | MOZ | |
| Nigeria | NGA | |
| Réunion | REU | |
| Rwanda | RWA | |
| Sierra Leone | SIE | |
| Sudan-South Sudan | SUD | |
| Tanzania | TAN | |
| Uganda | UGA | |
| Zambia | ZAM | |
| Zimbabwe | ZIM | |
| Assam | ASS | ASIA-TROPICAL |
| Bangladesh | BAN | |
| Borneo | BOR | |
| Cambodia | CBD | |
| East Himalaya | EHM | |
| India | IND | |
| Jawa | JAW | |
| Laos | LAO | |
| Lesser Sunda Is. | LSI | |
| Malaya | MLY | |
| Maluku | MOL | |
| Myanmar | MYA | |
| Nepal | NEP | |
| New Guinea | NWG | |
| Philippines | PHI | |
| Solomon Is. | SOL | |
| Sri Lanka | SRL | |
| Sulawesi | SUL | |
| Sumatera | SUM | |
| Thailand | THA | |
| Vietnam | VIE | |
| West Himalaya | WHM | |
| Caroline Is. | CRL | PACIFIC |
| Fiji | FIJ | |
| Marianas | MRN | |
| Marquesas | MRQ | |
| Samoa | SAM | |
| Society Is. | SCI | |
| Tonga | TON | |
| Tubuai Is. | TUB | |
| Vanuatu | VAN | |
| China South-Central | CHC | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| China Southeast | CHS | |
| Tibet | CHT | |
| New South Wales | NSW | AUSTRALASIA |
| Queensland | QLD |
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 537 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -33.3 °C | -23.3 °C | -12.2 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 15.5 °C | 23.5 °C | 25.4 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 337 mm | 601 mm | 915 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 10 mm | 36 mm | 68 mm |
It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 537 research-grade observations of Boehmeria virgata 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 92 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.
- Boehmeria canescens (Wedd.) Blume
- Boehmeria caudata Poir.
- Boehmeria caudata (Burm.f.) J.J.Sm.
- Boehmeria caudata var. celebica (Blume) J.J.Sm.
- Boehmeria caudata var. pendula J.J.Sm.
- Boehmeria caudata var. scabrella J.J.Sm.
- Boehmeria celebica (Blume) Blume
- Boehmeria cylindrica Hb. ex Blume
- Boehmeria densiglomerata W.T.Wang
- Boehmeria dolichostachya W.T.Wang
- Boehmeria dolichostachya var. dolichostachya
- Boehmeria dolichostachya var. mollis (W.T.Wang) W.T.Wang & C.J.Chen
- Boehmeria elliptica Wedd.
- Boehmeria elongata Steud.
- Boehmeria erythropoda Miq.
- Boehmeria greviaefolia C.Presl
- Boehmeria holosericea var. strigosa W.T.Wang
- Boehmeria huegeliana Blume
- Boehmeria interrupta Guill.
- Boehmeria macrophylla Hornem.
- Boehmeria macrophylla subsp. canescens (Wedd.) Panigrahi & Murti
- Boehmeria macrophylla var. canescens (Wedd.) D.G.Long
- Boehmeria macrophylla var. dongtousensis W.T.Wang
- Boehmeria macrophylla var. longissima (Hook.f.) V.S.Ramach. & V.J.Nair
and 68 more.
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.