Dendrolobium triangulare(Retz.) Schindl.

WFO wfo-0000186603 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Dendrolobium triangulare, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-11-08 / obs. 104576694
Dendrolobium triangulare, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 104284103
Dendrolobium triangulare, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 133817306
Dendrolobium triangulare, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 41462400
Dendrolobium triangulare, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 132400026
Dendrolobium triangulare, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. f Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 123612256
Dendrolobium triangulare, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. g Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 127147817
Dendrolobium triangulare, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. h Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 126327889

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Native range 23 botanical countries

Regions where Dendrolobium triangulare is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Taiwan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalukuMyanmarNepalSri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamWest Himalaya Andaman Is.
Native distribution of Dendrolobium triangulare, 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
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Taiwan TAI

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 10.6 °C 13.3 °C 19.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 28.0 °C 30.1 °C 34.6 °C
Annual rainfall 1,961 mm 2,712 mm 4,123 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 3 mm 77 mm 154 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 Dendrolobium triangulare 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 20 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.

  • Cajanus quinquepetalus Blanco
  • Dendrolobium cephalotes (Roxb.) Benth.
  • Dendrolobium cephalotoides (Craib) Schindl.
  • Dendrolobium triangulare f. villosum H.Ohashi
  • Desmodium australe Hassk.
  • Desmodium cephalotes (Roxb.) Benth.
  • Desmodium cephalotes (Roxb.) Wall. ex Wight & Arn.
  • Desmodium cephalotes var. congestum (Wall. ex Wight & Arn.) Prain
  • Desmodium cephalotoides Craib
  • Desmodium congestum Wall. ex Wight & Arn.
  • Desmodium lineatum Span.
  • Desmodium sericatum C.Presl
  • Desmodium triangulare (Retz.) Merr.
  • Desmodium triangulare var. congestum (Wall. ex Wight & Arn.) Santapau
  • Hedysarum cephalotes Roxb.
  • Hedysarum congestum Rottler ex Wall.
  • Hedysarum mackete Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.
  • Hedysarum triangulare Retz.
  • Hedysarum umbellatum Roxb.
  • Meibomia cephalotes (Roxb.) Kuntze

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.