Miconia ciliata(Rich.) DC.

WFO wfo-0001078823 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Miconia ciliata, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. a Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-30 / obs. 166611464
Miconia ciliata, photographed by Steven Bodzin
fig. b Steven Bodzin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30545276
Miconia ciliata, photographed by Rosângela Souza
fig. c Rosângela Souza, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 97407922
Miconia ciliata, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. d Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173893211
Miconia ciliata, photographed by harrier
fig. e harrier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173800099
Miconia ciliata, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. f Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172508128
Miconia ciliata, photographed by Denis Bastianelli
fig. g Denis Bastianelli, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159930226
Miconia ciliata, photographed by B. Phalan
fig. h B. Phalan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 33007068

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Native range 23 botanical countries

Regions where Miconia ciliata is native: Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panamá, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela Mexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaDominican RepublicFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela
Native distribution of Miconia ciliata, 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
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Dominican Republic DOM
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Gulf MXG NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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 402 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 14.5 °C 22.5 °C 24.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.0 °C 30.6 °C 32.2 °C
Annual rainfall 1,203 mm 2,901 mm 3,458 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 20 mm 239 mm 337 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 402 research-grade observations of Miconia ciliata 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 23 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.

  • Acinodendron ciliatum (Rich.) Kuntze
  • Acinodendron decussatum (Vahl) Kuntze
  • Clidemia glabriflora C.Presl
  • Hartigia barbigera Miq.
  • Melastoma ciliatum Rich.
  • Melastoma decussatum Vahl
  • Melastoma sessiliflorum Mart. ex DC.
  • Miconia barbigera DC.
  • Miconia calophylla Crueg.
  • Miconia ciliata var. attenuata Cogn.
  • Miconia ciliata var. ciliata
  • Miconia ciliata var. congestiflora Cogn.
  • Miconia ciliata var. plurilocularis Cogn.
  • Miconia ciliata var. serrata Cogn.
  • Miconia congestiflora DC.
  • Miconia cruegeri Triana
  • Miconia decussata (Vahl) D.Don ex Loudon
  • Miconia racemosa var. barbigera Cogn.
  • Miconia racemosa var. ciliata Griseb.
  • Miconia racemosa var. plurilocularis Naudin
  • Miconia racemosa var. urbaniana Cogn.
  • Miconia virgulata Gleason
  • Tamonea ciliata (Rich.) Krasser

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.