Miconia lacera(Bonpl.) Naudin

WFO wfo-0001078832 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Miconia lacera, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. a Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2018-03-11 / obs. 14271924
Miconia lacera, photographed by Isaac Larkin
fig. b Isaac Larkin, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 13846658
Miconia lacera, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. c Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81899350
Miconia lacera, photographed by Ashwin Srinivasan
fig. d Ashwin Srinivasan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173544144
Miconia lacera, photographed by Ashwin Srinivasan
fig. e Ashwin Srinivasan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173539664
Miconia lacera, photographed by Emily Franzen
fig. f Emily Franzen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172373020
Miconia lacera, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. g Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126767664
Miconia lacera, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. h Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126768285

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Miconia lacera is native: Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela Mexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáPeruTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela
Native distribution of Miconia lacera, 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
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
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 115 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 17.9 °C 19.3 °C 24.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.2 °C 28.2 °C 31.8 °C
Annual rainfall 2,145 mm 3,674 mm 5,111 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 96 mm 302 mm 646 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 115 research-grade observations of Miconia lacera 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 5 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 lacerum (Bonpl.) Kuntze
  • Clidemia lacera (Bonpl.) DC.
  • Clidemia rhodolasia Beurl.
  • Melastoma lacerum Bonpl.
  • Miconia villosissima Crueg.

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.