Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.
Native range 11 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Burundi | BUR | AFRICA |
| DR Congo | ZAI | |
| Kenya | KEN | |
| Rwanda | RWA | |
| Tanzania | TAN | |
| Uganda | UGA | |
| Zambia | ZAM | |
| Iran | IRN | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| Yemen | YEM | |
| India | IND | ASIA-TROPICAL |
| Vietnam | VIE |
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 95 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 13.0 °C | 17.5 °C | 23.6 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 30.5 °C | 33.6 °C | 37.6 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 849 mm | 2,814 mm | 4,460 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 2 mm | 6 mm | 48 mm |
It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 95 research-grade observations of Murdannia semiteres 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 12 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.
- Aneilema paniculatum Wall. ex C.B.Clarke
- Aneilema semiteres Dalzell
- Commelina bulbosa B.Heyne ex Steud.
- Commelina nimmoniana J.Graham
- Commelina nimmoniana J.Graham ex C.B.Clarke
- Dichoespermum paniculatum Hassk. ex C.B.Clarke
- Dichoespermum semiteres (Dalzell) Hassk.
- Murdannia nimmoniana (J.Graham) S.M.Almeida
- Murdannia nimmoniana (J.Graham) Bole & M.R.Almeida
- Murdannia paniculata (Wall. ex C.B.Clarke) G.Brückn.
- Murdannia semiteres Sant.
- Phaeneilema paniculatum (Wall. ex C.B.Clarke) G.Brückn.
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.
- 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.