Coddia rudis | BotanAI

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Coddia rudis, photographed by Presha Soogrim — fig. a Presha Soogrim, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-02 / obs. 193825198

Coddia rudis, photographed by Mark Liptrot — fig. b Mark Liptrot, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 194732203

Coddia rudis, photographed by Mmatjie Mashao — fig. c Mmatjie Mashao, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 192305368

Coddia rudis, photographed by Andrew Deacon — fig. d Andrew Deacon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173826580

Coddia rudis, photographed by Mahomed Desai — fig. e Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155397452

Coddia rudis, photographed by grabbarg — fig. f grabbarg, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 139593920

Coddia rudis, photographed by Nic Knott-Craig — fig. g Nic Knott-Craig, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 102356322

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Native distribution of Coddia rudis, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Cape Provinces	CPP	AFRICA
Eswatini	SWZ
KwaZulu-Natal	NAT
Mozambique	MOZ
Northern Provinces	TVL
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 446 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	5.8 °C	9.7 °C	14.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	25.0 °C	26.6 °C	30.3 °C
Annual rainfall	541 mm	742 mm	1,068 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	22 mm	93 mm	115 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 446 research-grade observations of Coddia rudis 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 7 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.

Gardenia microcarpa Hochst.
Heinsia capensis H.Buek ex Harv.
Lachnosiphonium rude (E.Mey. ex Harv.) J.G.García
Lachnosiphonium rude var. parvifolium Yamam.
Randia parvifolia Harv.
Randia rudis E.Mey. ex Harv.
Xeromphis rudis (E.Mey. ex Harv.) Codd

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.