Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 5 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| China South-Central | CHC | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| China Southeast | CHS | |
| Taiwan | TAI | |
| Cambodia | CBD | ASIA-TROPICAL |
| Vietnam | VIE |
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 997 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 7.0 °C | 12.0 °C | 15.1 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 24.6 °C | 28.9 °C | 30.8 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 2,352 mm | 3,473 mm | 4,520 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 131 mm | 573 mm | 856 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 997 research-grade observations of Daphniphyllum pentandrum 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 24 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.
- Daphniphyllum crispifolium H.Keng
- Daphniphyllum formosanum K.Rosenthal
- Daphniphyllum formosanum H.Keng
- Daphniphyllum glaucescens subsp. oldhamii (Hemsl.) T.C.Huang
- Daphniphyllum glaucescens var. kengii (Hurus.) T.C.Huang
- Daphniphyllum glaucescens var. longistylum (S.S.Chien) T.C.Huang
- Daphniphyllum glaucescens var. oldhamii Hemsl.
- Daphniphyllum glaucescens var. salicifolium (S.S.Chien) T.C.Huang
- Daphniphyllum glaucescens var. taiwanianum S.S.Ying
- Daphniphyllum kengii Hurus.
- Daphniphyllum longistylum S.S.Chien
- Daphniphyllum marchandii (H.Lév.) Croizat & F.P.Metcalf
- Daphniphyllum oblongum S.S.Chien
- Daphniphyllum oblongum subsp. salicifolium (S.S.Chien) J.X.Wang
- Daphniphyllum oldhamii (Hemsl.) K.Rosenthal
- Daphniphyllum oldhamii var. longistylum (S.S.Chien) J.X.Wang
- Daphniphyllum oldhamii var. oblongo-lanceolatum J.X.Wang
- Daphniphyllum pentandrum var. oldhamii (Hemsl.) Hurus.
- Daphniphyllum reticulatum H.Keng
- Daphniphyllum roxburghii Baill. ex Rosenthal
- Daphniphyllum roxburghii Baill.
- Daphniphyllum salicifolium S.S.Chien
- Daphniphyllum teysmannii var. oldhamii (Hemsl.) Hurus.
- Webera marchandii H.Lév.
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.