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.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Where it actually grows measured, from 78 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 5.6 °C | 10.0 °C | 14.4 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 16.5 °C | 20.8 °C | 25.4 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 1,031 mm | 2,375 mm | 3,740 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 68 mm | 272 mm | 482 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 78 research-grade observations of Miconia theaezans 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 38 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 multinervulosum (Cogn.) Kuntze
- Acinodendron theaezans (Bonpl.) Kuntze
- Angeja vandelii Steud.
- Cremanium ambiguum Benth.
- Cremanium glaberrimum DC.
- Cremanium milleflorum DC.
- Cremanium minutiflorum DC.
- Cremanium paludosum Gardner
- Cremanium theaezans (Bonpl.) DC.
- Hartigia milleflora Miq.
- Melastoma dimorphum Schrank & Mart. ex DC.
- Melastoma milleflorum Schrank & Mart. ex DC.
- Melastoma theaezans Bonpl.
- Miconia dimorpha Naudin
- Miconia milleflora Naudin
- Miconia multinervulosa Cogn.
- Miconia paludosa Naudin
- Miconia theaezans subsp. flavescens Cogn.
- Miconia theaezans subsp. viridis Cogn.
- Miconia theaezans var. cuneata Cogn.
- Miconia theaezans var. genuina Cogn.
- Miconia theaezans var. glaberrima Cogn.
- Miconia theaezans var. glazioviana Cogn.
- Miconia theaezans var. integrifolia Cogn.
and 14 more.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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.