Dichorisandra hexandra(Aubl.) Standl.

WFO wfo-0000386838 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Dichorisandra hexandra, photographed by William G. Borges
fig. a William G. Borges, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-05 / obs. 181749729
Dichorisandra hexandra, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. b Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155517218
Dichorisandra hexandra, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg
fig. c Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 175634473
Dichorisandra hexandra, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. d Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155517235
Dichorisandra hexandra, photographed by Anthony Batista
fig. e Anthony Batista, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 146158307
Dichorisandra hexandra, photographed by Anthony Batista
fig. f Anthony Batista, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 146158330
Dichorisandra hexandra, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. g Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185124494
Dichorisandra hexandra, photographed by Danna Lizeth Guevara Prieto
fig. h Danna Lizeth Guevara Prieto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57397507

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Native range 29 botanical countries

Regions where Dichorisandra hexandra is native: Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles Mexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestArgentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorEl SalvadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela Leeward Is.Venezuelan Antilles
Native distribution of Dichorisandra hexandra, 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
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Belize BLZ
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Honduras HON
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA
Mexico Gulf MXG NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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 133 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 8.7 °C 19.2 °C 23.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.3 °C 29.4 °C 33.3 °C
Annual rainfall 1,028 mm 2,394 mm 5,047 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 25 mm 241 mm 601 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 133 research-grade observations of Dichorisandra hexandra 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 31 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.

  • Aneilema ecuadoriense Steyerm.
  • Commelina hexandra Aubl.
  • Commelina hexandra var. caracasana Ernst
  • Convallaria diffusa Vell.
  • Dichorisandra affinis Mart.
  • Dichorisandra aubletiana Schult.f.
  • Dichorisandra aubletiana var. affinis (Mart.) C.B.Clarke
  • Dichorisandra aubletiana var. intermedia (Mart.) C.B.Clarke
  • Dichorisandra aubletiana var. ovata (Mart.) C.B.Clarke
  • Dichorisandra aubletiana var. persicariifolia C.B.Clarke
  • Dichorisandra begoniifolia Kunth
  • Dichorisandra gracilis Nees & Mart.
  • Dichorisandra hexandra var. persicariifolia (C.B.Clarke) J.F.Macbr.
  • Dichorisandra inaequalis C.Presl
  • Dichorisandra intermedia Mart.
  • Dichorisandra mexicana C.Presl
  • Dichorisandra ovalifolia C.Presl
  • Dichorisandra ovata Mart.
  • Dichorisandra scandens Gardner ex C.B.Clarke
  • Dichorisandra schomburgkiana Klotzsch
  • Dichorisandra siebertii hort. ex L.H.Bailey
  • Dichorisandra tenuior Mart.
  • Stickmannia begoniifolia Kuntze
  • Stickmannia gracilis Kuntze

and 7 more.

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.