Diploclisia glaucescens(Blume) Diels

WFO wfo-0000650164 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Diploclisia glaucescens, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. a Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-04-03 / obs. 186207247
Diploclisia glaucescens, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 186207512
Diploclisia glaucescens, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. c Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 172267367
Diploclisia glaucescens, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. d Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 146811867
Diploclisia glaucescens, photographed by S.MORE
fig. e S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 58975819
Diploclisia glaucescens, photographed by Manoj Karingamadathil
fig. f Manoj Karingamadathil, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 47843586
Diploclisia glaucescens, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. g Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 116030232
Diploclisia glaucescens, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. h Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 176457607

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Diploclisia glaucescens is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaMalayaMalukuMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnam Andaman Is.Nicobar Is.
Native distribution of Diploclisia glaucescens, 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
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH

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 141 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 11.9 °C 13.0 °C 18.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 28.6 °C 29.7 °C 34.5 °C
Annual rainfall 2,055 mm 2,389 mm 4,112 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 3 mm 87 mm 114 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 141 research-grade observations of Diploclisia glaucescens 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 11 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.

  • Cebatha macrocarpa (Wight & Arn.) Kuntze
  • Cocculus glaucescens Blume
  • Cocculus kunstleri King
  • Cocculus macrocarpus Wight & Arn.
  • Diploclisia inclyta Miers
  • Diploclisia kunstleri (King) Diels
  • Diploclisia lepida Miers
  • Diploclisia macrocarpa (Wight & Arn.) Miers
  • Diploclisia pictinervis Miers
  • Menispermum glaucescens (Blume) Spreng.
  • Quinio cocculoides Schltdl.

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.