Notothixos cornifoliusOliv.

WFO wfo-0000381050 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Notothixos cornifolius, photographed by coenobita
fig. a coenobita, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-13 / obs. 205993700
Notothixos cornifolius, photographed by coenobita
fig. b coenobita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205993648
Notothixos cornifolius, photographed by coenobita
fig. c coenobita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205993659
Notothixos cornifolius, photographed by coenobita
fig. d coenobita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205993692
Notothixos cornifolius, photographed by coenobita
fig. e coenobita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205993681
Notothixos cornifolius, photographed by coenobita
fig. f coenobita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205993673

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Notothixos cornifolius is native: New Guinea, New South Wales, Queensland New GuineaNew South WalesQueensland
Native distribution of Notothixos cornifolius, 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
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD
New Guinea NWG ASIA-TROPICAL

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 67 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 2.3 °C 4.7 °C 10.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 25.8 °C 27.9 °C 29.8 °C
Annual rainfall 647 mm 776 mm 1,681 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 99 mm 132 mm 232 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 67 research-grade observations of Notothixos cornifolius 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 4 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.

  • Notothixos cornifolius var. angustifolius Oliv.
  • Notothixos incanus var. cornifolius (Oliv.) Maiden & Betche
  • Phoradendron xanthophyllum (A.Cunn. ex Oliv.) Ettingsh.
  • Viscum xanthophyllum A.Cunn. ex Oliv.

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.