Corbichonia decumbens(Forssk.) Exell

WFO wfo-0000619977 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Corbichonia decumbens, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. a Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-26 / obs. 180935176
Corbichonia decumbens, photographed by Noeleen du Toit
fig. b Noeleen du Toit, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 177800102
Corbichonia decumbens, photographed by Gerhard Sieburg
fig. c Gerhard Sieburg, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 113876320
Corbichonia decumbens, photographed by Hildegard Klein
fig. d Hildegard Klein, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 104807655
Corbichonia decumbens, photographed by Andrew Hankey
fig. e Andrew Hankey, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 14215469
Corbichonia decumbens, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. f Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 196850298
Corbichonia decumbens, photographed by Morten Ross
fig. g Morten Ross, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 1859991
Corbichonia decumbens, photographed by rosshawkins
fig. h rosshawkins, CC0 1.0 / obs. 175898058

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Native range 30 botanical countries

Regions where Corbichonia decumbens is native: Angola, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Chad, Djibouti, DR Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Free State, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Northern Provinces, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Iran, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, India, Pakistan AngolaBotswanaCape ProvincesChadDjiboutiDR CongoEritreaEswatiniEthiopiaFree StateKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMalawiMauritaniaMozambiqueNamibiaNigerNorthern ProvincesSomaliaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaUgandaZimbabweIranOmanSaudi ArabiaYemenIndiaPakistan
Native distribution of Corbichonia decumbens, 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
Botswana BOT
Cape Provinces CPP
Chad CHA
Djibouti DJI
DR Congo ZAI
Eritrea ERI
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Free State OFS
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Malawi MLW
Mauritania MTN
Mozambique MOZ
Namibia NAM
Niger NGR
Northern Provinces TVL
Socotra SOC
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Zimbabwe ZIM
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
Oman OMA
Saudi Arabia SAU
Yemen YEM
India IND ASIA-TROPICAL
Pakistan PAK

Not drawn on the map: Socotra. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 163 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 5.6 °C 10.5 °C 17.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 28.2 °C 30.8 °C 33.0 °C
Annual rainfall 265 mm 556 mm 828 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 7 mm 19 mm 55 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 163 research-grade observations of Corbichonia decumbens 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 10 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.

  • Axonotechium trianthemoides (B.Heyne ex Roth) Fenzl
  • Diplochonium hochstetteri Stocks ex Aitch.
  • Glinus mucronatus (Klotzsch) Klotzsch
  • Glinus trianthemoides B.Heyne ex Roth
  • Orygia decumbens Forssk.
  • Orygia mucronata Klotzsch
  • Orygia villosa Forssk.
  • Portulaca decumbens (Forssk.) Vahl
  • Talinum decumbens (Forssk.) Willd.
  • Telephium laxiflorum DC.

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.