Didymopanax morototoni(Aubl.) Decne. & Planch.

WFO wfo-0000943189 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Didymopanax morototoni, photographed by keesgroenendijk
fig. a keesgroenendijk, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-28 / obs. 170666531
Didymopanax morototoni, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. b Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60921559
Didymopanax morototoni, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. c Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60920184
Didymopanax morototoni, photographed by Leonardo Bergamini
fig. d Leonardo Bergamini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 64870189
Didymopanax morototoni, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. e Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 2527601
Didymopanax morototoni, photographed by Steven Bodzin
fig. f Steven Bodzin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30814793
Didymopanax morototoni, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. g Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106515127
Didymopanax morototoni, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. h Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 35621623

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
05014101
Filed as
Didymopanax morototoni (Aubl.) Decne. & Planch.
Det. by
M. L. Kawasaki 1988-01-01
Collected
K. Milton 1987-06-15
Origin
BR
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 32 botanical countries

Regions where Didymopanax morototoni is native: Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Argentina Northeast, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela Mexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestArgentina NortheastBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorEl SalvadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHaitiHondurasNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruPuerto RicoSurinameTrinidad-TobagoUruguayVenezuela Leeward Is.
Native distribution of Didymopanax morototoni, 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
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
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Uruguay URU
Venezuela VEN
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 357 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 13.1 °C 21.0 °C 23.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.4 °C 29.6 °C 32.1 °C
Annual rainfall 1,401 mm 2,266 mm 4,036 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 67 mm 253 mm 465 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 357 research-grade observations of Didymopanax morototoni 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 22 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.

  • Aralia micans Willd. ex Schult.
  • Didymopanax calophyllus Decne. & Planch.
  • Didymopanax chrysophyllus (Vahl) Decne. & Planch.
  • Didymopanax micans (Willd. ex Schult.) Krug & Urb.
  • Didymopanax morototoni var. poeppigii Marchal
  • Didymopanax morototoni var. sessiliflorus Marchal
  • Didymopanax poeppigii Decne. & Planch.
  • Didymopanax speciosus (Willd.) Decne. & Planch.
  • Didymopanax splendens (Kunth) Decne. & Planch. ex Seem.
  • Didymopanax splendidus Planch. ex Linden
  • Didymopanax undulatus Decne. & Planch. ex C.Wright
  • Oreopanax morototoni (Aubl.) Pittier
  • Panax chrysophyllus Vahl
  • Panax morototoni Aubl.
  • Panax speciosus Willd.
  • Panax spinosus Poir.
  • Panax splendens Kunth
  • Panax undulatus Kunth
  • Schefflera morototoni (Aubl.) Maguire, Steyerm. & Frodin
  • Schefflera morototoni var. sessiliflorus (Marchal) Frodin
  • Schefflera splendens (Kunth) Frodin ex Lindeman
  • Sciodaphyllum paniculatum Britton

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.