Galianthe centranthoides(Cham. & Schltdl.) E.L.Cabral

WFO wfo-0000968134 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Galianthe centranthoides, photographed by alfo
fig. a alfo, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-27 / obs. 170587475
Galianthe centranthoides, photographed by alfo
fig. b alfo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170587500
Galianthe centranthoides, photographed by Sebastián Fornés
fig. c Sebastián Fornés, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174331721
Galianthe centranthoides, photographed by Sebastián Fornés
fig. d Sebastián Fornés, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174331690
Galianthe centranthoides, photographed by Sebastián Fornés
fig. e Sebastián Fornés, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174331739

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Galianthe centranthoides is native: Argentina Northeast, Brazil North, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Paraguay, Uruguay Argentina NortheastBrazil NorthBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralParaguayUruguay
Native distribution of Galianthe centranthoides, 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
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North BZN
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Paraguay PAR
Uruguay URU

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 40 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 6.2 °C 7.9 °C 9.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.1 °C 25.8 °C 30.8 °C
Annual rainfall 1,155 mm 1,256 mm 1,421 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 176 mm 260 mm 304 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 40 research-grade observations of Galianthe centranthoides 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 11 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.

  • Borreria centranthoides Cham. & Schltdl.
  • Borreria centranthoides f. angustifolia (Cham. & Schltdl.) Chodat & Hassl.
  • Borreria centranthoides f. glabrior Chodat & Hassl.
  • Borreria centranthoides f. latifolia (Cham. & Schltdl.) Chodat & Hassl.
  • Borreria centranthoides f. pubescens Chodat & Hassl.
  • Borreria centranthoides var. angustifolia Cham. & Schltdl.
  • Borreria centranthoides var. latifolia Cham. & Schltdl.
  • Borreria pohliana DC.
  • Galianthe clidemioides Griseb.
  • Spermacoce centranthoides (Cham. & Schltdl.) Kuntze
  • Spermacoce clidemioides (Griseb.) Niederl.

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.