Drypetes deplanchei(Brongn. & Gris) Merr.

WFO wfo-0000946450 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Drypetes deplanchei, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. a Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205069525
Drypetes deplanchei, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. b Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 203460002
Drypetes deplanchei, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. c Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195859213
Drypetes deplanchei, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. d Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195471752
Drypetes deplanchei, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. e Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 192822414
Drypetes deplanchei, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. f Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 188488042
Drypetes deplanchei, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. g Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 187031259
Drypetes deplanchei, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. h Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 186800568

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Drypetes deplanchei is native: New Guinea, New South Wales, Norfolk Is., Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia, New Caledonia, Vanuatu New GuineaNew South WalesNorthern TerritoryQueenslandWestern AustraliaNew Caledonia Norfolk Is.Vanuatu
Native distribution of Drypetes deplanchei, 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
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
Norfolk Is. NFK
Northern Territory NTA
Queensland QLD
Western Australia WAU
New Caledonia NWC PACIFIC
Vanuatu VAN
New Guinea NWG ASIA-TROPICAL

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 1,083 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 6.4 °C 9.7 °C 17.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 25.6 °C 28.5 °C 30.6 °C
Annual rainfall 813 mm 1,101 mm 1,700 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 54 mm 117 mm 219 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 1,083 research-grade observations of Drypetes deplanchei 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 17 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.

  • Drypetes affinis Pax & K.Hoffm.
  • Drypetes australasica (Müll.Arg.) Pax & K.Hoffm.
  • Drypetes deplanchei subsp. affinis (Pax & K.Hoffm.) P.S.Green
  • Drypetes deplanchei subsp. deplanchei
  • Drypetes lasiogyna (F.Muell.) Pax & K.Hoffm.
  • Drypetes lasiogyna subsp. affinis (Pax & K.Hoffm.) P.S.Green
  • Drypetes lasiogyna var. australasica (Müll.Arg.) Airy Shaw
  • Drypetes lasiogyna var. lasiogyna
  • Elaeocarpus deplanchei Brongn. & Gris
  • Hemicyclia australasica Müll.Arg.
  • Hemicyclia deplanchei (Brongn. & Gris) Baill. ex Guillaumin
  • Hemicyclia lasiogyna F.Muell.
  • Hemicyclia sepiaria var. australasica (Müll.Arg.) Baill.
  • Hemicyclia sepiaria var. oblongifolia Benth.
  • Hisingera caledonica Pancher ex Briq.
  • Myroxylon caledonicum Briq.
  • Xylosma caledonica (Briq.) Briq.

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.