Disperis macowaniiBolus

WFO wfo-0000944765 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Disperis macowanii, photographed by Justin Ponder
fig. a Justin Ponder, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-20 / obs. 199116101
Disperis macowanii, photographed by Justin Ponder
fig. b Justin Ponder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191762124
Disperis macowanii, photographed by Justin Ponder
fig. c Justin Ponder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135805059
Disperis macowanii, photographed by jillblignaut
fig. d jillblignaut, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15942462
Disperis macowanii, photographed by Justin Ponder
fig. e Justin Ponder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150322760
Disperis macowanii, photographed by Di Turner
fig. f Di Turner, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195307091
Disperis macowanii, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. g Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15181130
Disperis macowanii, photographed by kevin koen
fig. h kevin koen, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 202434258

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Disperis macowanii is native: Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Northern Provinces, Tanzania Cape ProvincesKwaZulu-NatalMalawiNorthern ProvincesTanzania
Native distribution of Disperis macowanii, 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
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Malawi MLW
Northern Provinces TVL
Tanzania TAN

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 97 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 0.6 °C 10.9 °C 13.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 19.3 °C 22.9 °C 27.1 °C
Annual rainfall 478 mm 734 mm 1,007 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 61 mm 96 mm 174 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 97 research-grade observations of Disperis macowanii 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.

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.