Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 9 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| India | IND | ASIA-TROPICAL |
| Jawa | JAW | |
| Lesser Sunda Is. | LSI | |
| Myanmar | MYA | |
| Philippines | PHI | |
| Sulawesi | SUL | |
| Thailand | THA | |
| China South-Central | CHC | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| 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 502 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 6.4 °C | 8.4 °C | 21.2 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 26.4 °C | 32.6 °C | 35.0 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 675 mm | 1,008 mm | 1,575 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 51 mm | 160 mm | 257 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 502 research-grade observations of Dichanthium aristatum 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 15 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.
- Andropogon aristatus Poir.
- Andropogon caricosus subsp. mollicomus (Kunth) Hack.
- Andropogon caricosus var. glabrior Hack.
- Andropogon caricosus var. heteropogonoides Hack.
- Andropogon caricosus var. mollicomus (Kunth) Hack.
- Andropogon incurvatus J.Koenig ex Trin.
- Andropogon koenigii Raeusch.
- Andropogon mollicomus Kunth
- Andropogon pubescens Willd. ex Kunth
- Dichanthium aristatum var. heteropogonoides (Hack.) Jansen
- Dichanthium caricosum var. mollicomum (Kunth) Haines
- Diplasanthum lanosum Desv.
- Lepeocercis digitata Nees
- Lepeocercis mollicoma (Kunth) Nees
- Lepeocercis mollissima Nees ex Baker
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.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- 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.