Microlepia strigosa(Thunb.) C.Presl

palapalai

WFO wfo-0001109170 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Microlepia strigosa, photographed by chiuluan
fig. a chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-05 / obs. 181650605
Microlepia strigosa, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180352251
Microlepia strigosa, photographed by 四角銅鑼
fig. c 四角銅鑼, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177919822
Microlepia strigosa, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171075124
Microlepia strigosa, photographed by chiuluan
fig. e chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169975909
Microlepia strigosa, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. f Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169204611
Microlepia strigosa, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. g Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169204466
Microlepia strigosa, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. h 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165773082

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Where it actually grows measured, from 1,666 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 4.9 °C 11.8 °C 14.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.0 °C 29.2 °C 31.2 °C
Annual rainfall 1,982 mm 3,207 mm 4,413 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 110 mm 233 mm 773 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 1,666 research-grade observations of Microlepia strigosa 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

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.

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.