Fatoua pilosaGaudich.

WFO wfo-0000685950 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Fatoua pilosa, photographed by 葉子
fig. a 葉子, CC0 1.0 / 2021-08-12 / obs. 167725132
Fatoua pilosa, photographed by 葉子
fig. b 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 82624492
Fatoua pilosa, photographed by 葉子
fig. c 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 82629507
Fatoua pilosa, photographed by 葉子
fig. d 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 82621634
Fatoua pilosa, photographed by 葉子
fig. e 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 79643909
Fatoua pilosa, photographed by 葉子
fig. f 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 79645535
Fatoua pilosa, photographed by 國立臺灣博物館
fig. g 國立臺灣博物館, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 78136063
Fatoua pilosa, photographed by 葉子
fig. h 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 40234253

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Fatoua pilosa is native: Taiwan, Lesser Sunda Is., New Guinea, Philippines, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia, New Caledonia, Vanuatu TaiwanLesser Sunda Is.New GuineaPhilippinesNorthern TerritoryQueenslandWestern AustraliaNew Caledonia Vanuatu
Native distribution of Fatoua pilosa, 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
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI ASIA-TROPICAL
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Northern Territory NTA AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD
Western Australia WAU
New Caledonia NWC PACIFIC
Vanuatu VAN
Taiwan TAI ASIA-TEMPERATE

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 87 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 13.3 °C 15.2 °C 19.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 28.6 °C 30.1 °C 30.6 °C
Annual rainfall 1,778 mm 1,898 mm 2,646 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 54 mm 60 mm 105 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 87 research-grade observations of Fatoua pilosa 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 1 synonym

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.

  • Parietaria aspera Lesch. ex Gaudich.

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.