Notanthera heterophylla(Ruiz & Pav.) G.Don

WFO wfo-0000379008 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Notanthera heterophylla, photographed by Nicolás Lavandero
fig. a Nicolás Lavandero, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-02-07 / obs. 73498969
Notanthera heterophylla, photographed by Nicolás Lavandero
fig. b Nicolás Lavandero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73499086
Notanthera heterophylla, photographed by Inao Vasquez
fig. c Inao Vasquez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190089399
Notanthera heterophylla, photographed by Inao Vasquez
fig. d Inao Vasquez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148353154
Notanthera heterophylla, photographed by Inao Vasquez
fig. e Inao Vasquez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136558424
Notanthera heterophylla, photographed by Inao Vasquez
fig. f Inao Vasquez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129414380
Notanthera heterophylla, photographed by Inao Vasquez
fig. g Inao Vasquez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205668070
Notanthera heterophylla, photographed by Inao Vasquez
fig. h Inao Vasquez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136558516

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000644349
Filed as
Notanthera heterophylla (Ruiz & Pav.) G.Don
Det. by
Kuijt, J.
Collected
Bertero 1830-04-01
Origin
CL
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Notanthera heterophylla is native: Chile Central, Chile South Chile CentralChile South
Native distribution of Notanthera heterophylla, 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
Chile Central CLC SOUTHERN AMERICA
Chile South CLS

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 144 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 2.0 °C 6.9 °C 8.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 17.1 °C 20.3 °C 28.5 °C
Annual rainfall 543 mm 1,495 mm 2,880 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 3 mm 69 mm 309 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 144 research-grade observations of Notanthera heterophylla 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.

  • Loranthus berteroi Hook. & Arn.
  • Loranthus buxifolius Cham.
  • Loranthus heterophyllus Ruiz & Pav.
  • Loranthus valdivianus Miq.
  • Loxanthera eschscholzianus Blume
  • Notanthera buxifolius G.Don
  • Phrygilanthus berteroi Eichler
  • Phrygilanthus heterophyllus (Ruiz & Pav.) Eichler
  • Psittacanthus berteroi G.Don
  • Psittacanthus eschscholzianus G.Don
  • Struthanthus buxifolius Blume
  • Struthanthus escholzianus Mart.
  • Struthanthus heterophyllus (Ruiz & Pav.) Blume

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.