Clappertonia ficifolia(Willd.) Decne.

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WFO wfo-0000608482 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Clappertonia ficifolia, photographed by Lucy Keith-Diagne
fig. a Lucy Keith-Diagne, CC BY 4.0 / 2013-09-09 / obs. 153909400
Clappertonia ficifolia, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. b Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59107623
Clappertonia ficifolia, photographed by hugorainey
fig. c hugorainey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118584789
Clappertonia ficifolia, photographed by spellecchias
fig. d spellecchias, CC0 1.0 / obs. 23592959
Clappertonia ficifolia, photographed by hugorainey
fig. e hugorainey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118584782
Clappertonia ficifolia, photographed by hugorainey
fig. f hugorainey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118587331
Clappertonia ficifolia, photographed by hugorainey
fig. g hugorainey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118587288
Clappertonia ficifolia, photographed by Lera Miles
fig. h Lera Miles, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14457850

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Native range 25 botanical countries

Regions where Clappertonia ficifolia is native: Angola, Benin, Burkina, Burundi, Cabinda, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, DR Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan-South Sudan, Togo, Uganda, Zambia AngolaBeninBurkinaBurundiCabindaCameroonCentral African RepublicChadCongoDR CongoGabonGhanaGuineaGuinea-BissauIvory CoastLiberiaMaliMozambiqueNigeriaSenegalSierra LeoneSudan-South SudanTogoUgandaZambia
Native distribution of Clappertonia ficifolia, 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
Angola ANG AFRICA
Benin BEN
Burkina BKN
Burundi BUR
Cabinda CAB
Cameroon CMN
Central African Republic CAF
Chad CHA
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Gabon GAB
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Guinea-Bissau GNB
Ivory Coast IVO
Liberia LBR
Mali MLI
Mozambique MOZ
Nigeria NGA
Senegal SEN
Sierra Leone SIE
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Togo TOG
Uganda UGA
Zambia ZAM

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 62 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 18.7 °C 21.2 °C 23.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 28.2 °C 30.6 °C 33.3 °C
Annual rainfall 1,397 mm 1,844 mm 2,969 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 23 mm 94 mm 219 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 62 research-grade observations of Clappertonia ficifolia 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 3 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.

  • Honkenya ficifolia Willd.
  • Honkenya ficifolia Willd.
  • Honkenya willdenovii J.F.Gmel.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.