Faurea rochetiana(A.Rich.) Chiov. ex Pic.Serm.

WFO wfo-0000686021 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Faurea rochetiana, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2020-02-25 / obs. 64454209
Faurea rochetiana, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 65791462
Faurea rochetiana, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 65805170
Faurea rochetiana, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 65804953
Faurea rochetiana, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 65796107
Faurea rochetiana, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 65796304
Faurea rochetiana, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 65792841
Faurea rochetiana, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 65610010

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Faurea rochetiana is native: Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, DR Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe AngolaBeninBurundiCameroonDR CongoEritreaEswatiniEthiopiaKenyaKwaZulu-NatalLesothoMalawiMozambiqueNigeriaNorthern ProvincesRwandaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaTogoUgandaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Faurea rochetiana, 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
Benin BEN
Burundi BUR
Cameroon CMN
DR Congo ZAI
Eritrea ERI
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Lesotho LES
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Nigeria NGA
Northern Provinces TVL
Rwanda RWA
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Togo TOG
Uganda UGA
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM

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 356 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 3.3 °C 5.7 °C 10.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.5 °C 25.1 °C 28.4 °C
Annual rainfall 790 mm 974 mm 1,460 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 5 mm 39 mm 60 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 356 research-grade observations of Faurea rochetiana 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 6 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.

  • Faurea decipiens C.H.Wright
  • Faurea rochetiana subsp. speciosa (Welw.) Troupin
  • Faurea speciosa Welw.
  • Faurea speciosa var. lanuginosa Hiern
  • Leucadendron rochetianum (A.Rich.) Kuntze
  • Leucospermum rochetianum A.Rich.

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.