Mniodes kunthiana(DC.) S.E.Freire, Chemisquy, Anderb. & Urtubey

WFO wfo-0001342399 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Mniodes kunthiana, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. a Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-02 / obs. 194752078
Mniodes kunthiana, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. b Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194789412
Mniodes kunthiana, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. c Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195438939
Mniodes kunthiana, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. d Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194052677
Mniodes kunthiana, photographed by Fabien Anthelme
fig. e Fabien Anthelme, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 65623464
Mniodes kunthiana, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 31084816
Mniodes kunthiana, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. g Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195352817
Mniodes kunthiana, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. h Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194101442

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Mniodes kunthiana is native: Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela Argentina NorthwestBoliviaColombiaEcuadorPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Mniodes kunthiana, 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
Argentina Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN

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 88 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -5.3 °C -0.4 °C 3.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 7.5 °C 9.2 °C 15.2 °C
Annual rainfall 1,120 mm 2,132 mm 2,900 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 31 mm 226 mm 371 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 88 research-grade observations of Mniodes kunthiana 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 13 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.

  • Belloa kunthiana (DC.) Anderb. & S.E.Freire
  • Conyza kunthiana DC.
  • Conyza pusilla Kunth
  • Gnaphalium kunthianum (DC.) Kuntze
  • Gnaphalium kunthianum Steud.
  • Lucilia affinis Wedd.
  • Lucilia conoidea Wedd.
  • Lucilia kunthiana (DC.) Zardini
  • Lucilia pusilla (Kunth) Hieron.
  • Lucilia pusilla Hieron. ex Sodiro
  • Lucilia venezuelensis Steyerm.
  • Lucilia violacea Wedd.
  • Merope kunthiana (DC.) Wedd.

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.