Cyathula uncinulata(Schrad.) Schinz

burweedglobe cyathula

WFO wfo-0000631238 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cyathula uncinulata, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. a Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 203570045
Cyathula uncinulata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204598080
Cyathula uncinulata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204598923
Cyathula uncinulata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 202501363
Cyathula uncinulata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 201062789
Cyathula uncinulata, photographed by Nolan Exe
fig. f Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12754366
Cyathula uncinulata, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. g Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162325692
Cyathula uncinulata, photographed by Antoinette Eyssell Knox
fig. h Antoinette Eyssell Knox, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15501773

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Native range 23 botanical countries

Regions where Cyathula uncinulata is native: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, DR Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Free State, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe AngolaBurundiCameroonCape ProvincesDR CongoEritreaEswatiniEthiopiaFree StateKenyaKwaZulu-NatalLesothoMadagascarMalawiMozambiqueNorthern ProvincesRwandaSomaliaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaUgandaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Cyathula uncinulata, 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
Burundi BUR
Cameroon CMN
Cape Provinces CPP
DR Congo ZAI
Eritrea ERI
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Free State OFS
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Lesotho LES
Madagascar MDG
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Northern Provinces TVL
Rwanda RWA
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Zambia ZAM
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 209 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -0.7 °C 4.2 °C 11.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.2 °C 25.4 °C 27.3 °C
Annual rainfall 587 mm 799 mm 1,443 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 17 mm 43 mm 121 mm

It is found where winters bring light frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 209 research-grade observations of Cyathula uncinulata 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.

  • Achyranthes globulifera Bojer ex Moq.
  • Achyranthes uncinulata Schrad.
  • Alternanthera lappulacea Schltdl. ex Moq.
  • Cyathula globulifera Moq.
  • Cyathula globulifera var. abyssinica Moq.
  • Cyathula uncinulata var. ceylanica Cavaco
  • Cyathula uncinulata var. pleiocephala Suess.

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.