Fissistigma oldhamii(Hemsl.) Merr.

WFO wfo-0000691180 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Fissistigma oldhamii, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-05-03 / obs. 71109100
Fissistigma oldhamii, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. b 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31985319
Fissistigma oldhamii, photographed by 國立臺灣博物館
fig. c 國立臺灣博物館, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63873020
Fissistigma oldhamii, photographed by Mori Chen
fig. d Mori Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172246051
Fissistigma oldhamii, photographed by Mori Chen
fig. e Mori Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170311344
Fissistigma oldhamii, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. f 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158851371
Fissistigma oldhamii, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. g 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 62917233
Fissistigma oldhamii, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. h Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14060433

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Fissistigma oldhamii is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Taiwan China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwan
Native distribution of Fissistigma oldhamii, 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
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Taiwan TAI

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 665 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 7.7 °C 11.0 °C 13.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.5 °C 28.5 °C 30.1 °C
Annual rainfall 2,177 mm 3,597 mm 4,695 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 112 mm 403 mm 841 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 665 research-grade observations of Fissistigma oldhamii 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 3 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.

  • Fissistigma oldhamii var. longistipitatum Tsiang
  • Fissistigma oldhamii var. oldhamii
  • Melodorum oldhamii Hemsl.

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.