Monocymbium ceresiiforme(Nees) Stapf

WFO wfo-0000880540 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Monocymbium ceresiiforme, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. a Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-10 / obs. 196765400
Monocymbium ceresiiforme, photographed by Alan Manson
fig. b Alan Manson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75352047
Monocymbium ceresiiforme, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 63769722
Monocymbium ceresiiforme, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 42087821
Monocymbium ceresiiforme, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 35297707
Monocymbium ceresiiforme, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 34420845
Monocymbium ceresiiforme, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 25241304
Monocymbium ceresiiforme, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 14535518

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Native range 36 botanical countries

Regions where Monocymbium ceresiiforme is native: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, DR Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Free State, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe AngolaBeninBotswanaBurkinaBurundiCameroonCape ProvincesCaprivi StripCentral African RepublicChadCongoDR CongoEswatiniEthiopiaFree StateGabonGhanaGuineaIvory CoastKwaZulu-NatalLesothoLiberiaMalawiMaliMozambiqueNamibiaNigerNigeriaNorthern ProvincesRwandaSierra LeoneSudan-South SudanTanzaniaTogoZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Monocymbium ceresiiforme, 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
Angola ANG AFRICA
Benin BEN
Botswana BOT
Burkina BKN
Burundi BUR
Cameroon CMN
Cape Provinces CPP
Caprivi Strip CPV
Central African Republic CAF
Chad CHA
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Free State OFS
Gabon GAB
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Ivory Coast IVO
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Lesotho LES
Liberia LBR
Malawi MLW
Mali MLI
Mozambique MOZ
Namibia NAM
Niger NGR
Nigeria NGA
Northern Provinces TVL
Rwanda RWA
Sierra Leone SIE
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Togo TOG
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM

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 230 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -1.0 °C 2.8 °C 12.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 20.9 °C 24.5 °C 26.9 °C
Annual rainfall 678 mm 950 mm 1,242 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 17 mm 44 mm 120 mm

It is found where winters bring light 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 230 research-grade observations of Monocymbium ceresiiforme 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 9 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.

  • Andropogon ceresiiformis Nees
  • Andropogon ceresiiformis var. breviaristatus Hack.
  • Andropogon ceresiiformis var. hirtellus Franch.
  • Andropogon ceresiiformis var. submuticus Hack.
  • Andropogon gangangalaensis Vanderyst
  • Hypogynium ceresiiforme (Nees) Roberty
  • Monocymbium ceresiiforme subvar. hirtulum Chiov.
  • Monocymbium nimbanum Jacq.-Fél.
  • Sorghum ceresiiforme (Nees) Kuntze

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.