Miconia subhirsuta(DC.) M.Gómez

WFO wfo-1000035959 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Miconia subhirsuta, photographed by Martín Sánchez Vilchis
fig. a Martín Sánchez Vilchis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2017-08-11 / obs. 9700789
Miconia subhirsuta, photographed by Martín Sánchez Vilchis
fig. b Martín Sánchez Vilchis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 8951636
Miconia subhirsuta, photographed by Eugenio Padilla
fig. c Eugenio Padilla, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 35941425
Miconia subhirsuta, photographed by Alec McClay
fig. d Alec McClay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181590173
Miconia subhirsuta, photographed by Alec McClay
fig. e Alec McClay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181591674
Miconia subhirsuta, photographed by Alec McClay
fig. f Alec McClay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178366655
Miconia subhirsuta, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. g Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18696668
Miconia subhirsuta, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. h Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18696703

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Where it actually grows measured, from 93 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 9.7 °C 13.7 °C 21.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.1 °C 26.5 °C 30.0 °C
Annual rainfall 1,598 mm 2,043 mm 2,953 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 76 mm 192 mm 345 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 93 research-grade observations of Miconia subhirsuta 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 10 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.

  • Conostegia bernoulliana Cogn.
  • Conostegia icosandra (Sw. ex Wikstr.) Urb.
  • Conostegia icosandra subsp. crenata (Urb.) Borhidi & O.Muñiz
  • Conostegia icosandra var. crenata Urb.
  • Conostegia lundellii Gleason
  • Conostegia mexicana Cogn.
  • Conostegia quadrangularis Schltdl. ex Steud.
  • Conostegia sphaerica Triana
  • Conostegia subhirsuta DC.
  • Melastoma icosandrum Sw. ex Wikstr.

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.