Diplorhynchus condylocarpon(Müll.Arg.) Pichon

WFO wfo-0000944083 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Diplorhynchus condylocarpon, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. a Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-11-20 / obs. 105020910
Diplorhynchus condylocarpon, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 24777204
Diplorhynchus condylocarpon, photographed by Andrew Hankey
fig. c Andrew Hankey, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15612974
Diplorhynchus condylocarpon, photographed by Manuel R Popp
fig. d Manuel R Popp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169348719
Diplorhynchus condylocarpon, photographed by Manuel R Popp
fig. e Manuel R Popp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167370118
Diplorhynchus condylocarpon, photographed by Manuel R Popp
fig. f Manuel R Popp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115195402
Diplorhynchus condylocarpon, photographed by Manuel R Popp
fig. g Manuel R Popp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114904207
Diplorhynchus condylocarpon, photographed by Manuel R Popp
fig. h Manuel R Popp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114818265

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
4185265
Filed as
Diplorhynchus condylocarpon (Müll.Arg.) Pichon
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
R. E. Gereau 1988-12-28
Origin
TZ
The sheet
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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Diplorhynchus condylocarpon is native: Angola, Botswana, Caprivi Strip, Congo, DR Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Tanzania, Zambia AngolaBotswanaCaprivi StripCongoDR CongoMalawiMozambiqueNamibiaNorthern ProvincesTanzaniaZambia
Native distribution of Diplorhynchus condylocarpon, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Angola ANG AFRICA
Botswana BOT
Caprivi Strip CPV
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Namibia NAM
Northern Provinces TVL
Tanzania TAN
Zambia ZAM

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 307 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 4.3 °C 7.4 °C 14.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.5 °C 29.5 °C 33.3 °C
Annual rainfall 440 mm 662 mm 1,310 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 1 mm 13 mm 53 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 307 research-grade observations of Diplorhynchus condylocarpon 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 8 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.

  • Aspidosperma condylocarpon Müll.Arg.
  • Diplorhynchus angolensis Büttner
  • Diplorhynchus angustifolia Stapf
  • Diplorhynchus mossambicensis Benth.
  • Diplorhynchus poggei K.Schum.
  • Diplorhynchus psilopus Welw. ex Ficalho & Hiern
  • Diplorhynchus welwitschii Rolfe
  • Neurolobium cymosum Baill.

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.