Miconia racemosa(Aubl.) DC.

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WFO wfo-0001080550 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Miconia racemosa, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. a Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-02-05 / obs. 60918229
Miconia racemosa, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. b Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60910260
Miconia racemosa, photographed by Bevan Weir
fig. c Bevan Weir, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 21414630
Miconia racemosa, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. d Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195231290
Miconia racemosa, photographed by Elliot Greiner
fig. e Elliot Greiner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181591323
Miconia racemosa, photographed by Elliot Greiner
fig. f Elliot Greiner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181576872
Miconia racemosa, photographed by Elliot Greiner
fig. g Elliot Greiner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181588845
Miconia racemosa, photographed by Elliot Greiner
fig. h Elliot Greiner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181579646

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
892846
Filed as
Miconia racemosa (Aubl.) DC.
Det. by
K. J. Wurdack 1988-01-01
Collected
B. M. Boom 1988-01-11
Origin
PR
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Miconia racemosa is native: Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Colombia, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Guyana, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is. Brazil NorthBrazil NortheastColombiaDominican RepublicFrench GuianaGuyanaHaitiPuerto RicoSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela Windward Is.
Native distribution of Miconia racemosa, 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
Brazil North BZN SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil Northeast BZE
Colombia CLM
Dominican Republic DOM
French Guiana FRG
Guyana GUY
Haiti HAI
Puerto Rico PUE
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN

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 367 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 16.9 °C 19.8 °C 23.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 25.1 °C 28.2 °C 31.5 °C
Annual rainfall 1,651 mm 2,840 mm 3,580 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 204 mm 320 mm 519 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 367 research-grade observations of Miconia racemosa 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 15 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 racemosum (Aubl.) Kuntze
  • Hartigia oblongifolia Miq.
  • Hartigia spectabilis Miq.
  • Melastoma croceum Spreng.
  • Melastoma racemosa Aubl.
  • Melastoma venosum Sessé & Moc.
  • Miconia brachypoda DC.
  • Miconia ciliata Benth.
  • Miconia circumsecta Macfad.
  • Miconia racemosa var. brachypoda Cogn.
  • Miconia racemosa var. lanceolata Naudin
  • Miconia serrulata Macfad. ex Griseb.
  • Miconia verruculosa Steud. ex Triana
  • Miconia verticillata Macfad.
  • Tamonea racemosa (Aubl.) O.F.Cook & G.N.Collins

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.