Miconia dependens(Pav. ex D.Don) Judd & Majure

WFO wfo-1000005420 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 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.

Miconia dependens, photographed by Círculo de Investigación en Taxonomía, Florística y Ecología Vegetal
fig. a Círculo de Investigación en Taxonomía, Florística y Ecología Vegetal, CC0 1.0 / 2022-02-12 / obs. 181074186
Miconia dependens, photographed by Samuel Lee
fig. b Samuel Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171278968
Miconia dependens, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. c Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58195787
Miconia dependens, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. d Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43772978
Miconia dependens, photographed by Martín Sánchez Vilchis
fig. e Martín Sánchez Vilchis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 8951633
Miconia dependens, photographed by Círculo de Investigación en Taxonomía, Florística y Ecología Vegetal
fig. f Círculo de Investigación en Taxonomía, Florística y Ecología Vegetal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 181074176
Miconia dependens, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. g Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150265809
Miconia dependens, photographed by Olvin Wilfredo Oyuela
fig. h Olvin Wilfredo Oyuela, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 144210945

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Native range 28 botanical countries

Regions where Miconia dependens is native: Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is. Mexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaCubaEcuadorEl SalvadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáPeruSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela Venezuelan AntillesWindward Is.
Native distribution of Miconia dependens, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA
Windward Is. WIN
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 228 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 13.0 °C 22.7 °C 24.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 25.6 °C 29.6 °C 32.9 °C
Annual rainfall 1,416 mm 2,567 mm 3,949 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 46 mm 258 mm 565 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 228 research-grade observations of Miconia dependens 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 19 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.

  • Clidemia capitellata (Bonpl.) D.Don
  • Clidemia capitellata var. dependens (Pav. ex D.Don) J.F.Macbr.
  • Clidemia capitellata var. levelii Wurdack
  • Clidemia capitellata var. neglecta (D.Don) L.O.Williams
  • Clidemia dependens Pav. ex D.Don
  • Clidemia kuhlmannii Hoehne
  • Clidemia longisetosa Hoehne
  • Clidemia neglecta D.Don
  • Clidemia neglecta var. angustifolia Cogn.
  • Clidemia neglecta var. squarrosa Kuntze
  • Clidemia spicata (Aubl.) DC.
  • Clidemia subspicata Beurl.
  • Maieta dependens (Pav. ex D.Don) Baill.
  • Maieta spicata M.Gómez
  • Melastoma capitellatum Bonpl.
  • Melastoma dependens Pav. ex D.Don
  • Melastoma spicatum Aubl.
  • Staphidium bracteosum Naudin
  • Staphidium confertiflorum Naudin

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.