Getonia floribunda

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Getonia floribunda, photographed by Dinesh Valke — fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 135440716

Getonia floribunda, photographed by Manoj Karingamadathil — fig. d Manoj Karingamadathil, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 69664038

Getonia floribunda, photographed by Nolan Exe — fig. g Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 39418433

Getonia floribunda, photographed by S.MORE — fig. h S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 66387432

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Native distribution of Getonia floribunda, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Andaman Is.	AND	ASIA-TROPICAL
Assam	ASS
Bangladesh	BAN
Cambodia	CBD
India	IND
Laos	LAO
Malaya	MLY
Myanmar	MYA
Thailand	THA
Vietnam	VIE
China South-Central	CHC	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 135 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	15.0 °C	18.9 °C	22.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	30.2 °C	33.5 °C	36.9 °C
Annual rainfall	1,141 mm	2,864 mm	4,408 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	2 mm	7 mm	103 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 135 research-grade observations of Getonia floribunda 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 8 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.

Calycopteris floribunda (Roxb.) Lam. ex Poir.
Calycopteris nutans (Roxb.) Kurz
Calycopteris nutans var. glabriuscula Kurz
Calycopteris nutans var. roxburghii Kurz
Combretum sericeum Wall. ex C.B.Clarke
Getonia nitida B.Heyne ex Roth
Getonia nutans Roxb. ex DC.
Getonia nutans var. brachystachya DC.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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.