Lethocolea pansa(Taylor) G.A.M.Scott & K.G.Beckm.

WFO wfo-1000009337 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Lethocolea pansa, photographed by Em Lamond
fig. a Em Lamond, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-12 / obs. 179107447
Lethocolea pansa, photographed by Em Lamond
fig. b Em Lamond, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170065069
Lethocolea pansa, photographed by Andrew Thornhill
fig. c Andrew Thornhill, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156628044
Lethocolea pansa, photographed by Em Lamond
fig. d Em Lamond, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154297658
Lethocolea pansa, photographed by Em Lamond
fig. e Em Lamond, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148247178
Lethocolea pansa, photographed by Andrew Thornhill
fig. f Andrew Thornhill, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 94133920
Lethocolea pansa, photographed by Andrew Thornhill
fig. g Andrew Thornhill, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 93552665
Lethocolea pansa, photographed by Em Lamond
fig. h Em Lamond, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 91079004

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Where it actually grows measured, from 223 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 3.1 °C 6.9 °C 10.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 20.4 °C 25.9 °C 33.5 °C
Annual rainfall 353 mm 776 mm 1,300 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 34 mm 75 mm 244 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 223 research-grade observations of Lethocolea pansa 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 9 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.

  • Calypogeia drummondii Spruce ex Schiffn.
  • Calypogeia squamata (Taylor) Spruce
  • Gymnanthe drummondii Mitt.
  • Jungermannia pansa Taylor
  • Lethocolea drummondii Mitt.
  • Lethocolea squamata (Taylor) E.A.Hodgs.
  • Podanthe drummondii Gottsche
  • Podanthe squamata Taylor
  • Symphyomitra drummondii Steph.

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.

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. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.