Clerodendrum villosumBlume

WFO wfo-0000887654 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 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.

Clerodendrum villosum, photographed by Samuel Lee
fig. a Samuel Lee, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-06 / obs. 186491200
Clerodendrum villosum, photographed by Shawn O'Donnell
fig. b Shawn O'Donnell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 13597813
Clerodendrum villosum, photographed by Samuel Lee
fig. c Samuel Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186491194
Clerodendrum villosum, photographed by Samuel Lee
fig. d Samuel Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186491204
Clerodendrum villosum, photographed by Samuel Lee
fig. e Samuel Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186491206

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 15 botanical countries

Regions where Clerodendrum villosum is native: China South-Central, Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMyanmarPhilippinesSumateraThailandVietnam Nicobar Is.
Native distribution of Clerodendrum villosum, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE

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 39 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 20.8 °C 24.1 °C 24.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 28.5 °C 29.0 °C 30.1 °C
Annual rainfall 2,416 mm 2,532 mm 2,661 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 394 mm 514 mm 525 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 39 research-grade observations of Clerodendrum villosum 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 8 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.

  • Clerodendrum confusum Hallier f.
  • Clerodendrum curranii Elmer
  • Clerodendrum ferrugineum Turcz.
  • Clerodendrum infortunatum Dennst.
  • Clerodendrum molle Jack
  • Clerodendrum velutinum B.Thomas
  • Clerodendrum velutinum Wall.
  • Clerodendrum villosum var. macrocalyx Moldenke

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.