Gurania makoyana

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Gurania makoyana, photographed by Tom Field — fig. b Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191447157

Gurania makoyana, photographed by Aitor — fig. c Aitor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116832834

Gurania makoyana, photographed by Kai Squires — fig. d Kai Squires, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114691263

Gurania makoyana, photographed by Lena Struwe — fig. e Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 35622724

Gurania makoyana, photographed by Don Loarie — fig. f Don Loarie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32553944

Gurania makoyana, photographed by Isaac Winkler — fig. g Isaac Winkler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63763994

Gurania makoyana, photographed by Andrea Gantzer — fig. h Andrea Gantzer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181152364

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Native distribution of Gurania makoyana, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Belize	BLZ	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Colombia	CLM
Costa Rica	COS
Guatemala	GUA
Honduras	HON
Nicaragua	NIC
Panamá	PAN
Peru	PER
Venezuela	VEN
Mexico Southeast	MXT	NORTHERN AMERICA

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 264 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	14.8 °C	20.3 °C	23.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	24.4 °C	28.3 °C	29.9 °C
Annual rainfall	1,955 mm	3,684 mm	4,953 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	88 mm	314 mm	731 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 264 research-grade observations of Gurania makoyana 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 7 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.

Anguria eriantha Seem.
Anguria makoyana Lem.
Gurania donnell-smithii Cogn.
Gurania levyana Cogn.
Gurania pittieri Cogn.
Gurania seemanniana Cogn.
Gurania tonduziana Donn.Sm.

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.