Oxytes brachypoda(A.Gray) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi

WFO wfo-0001423883 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Oxytes brachypoda, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. a Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-05-08 / obs. 195884401
Oxytes brachypoda, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. b Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 186371842
Oxytes brachypoda, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. c Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 176126004
Oxytes brachypoda, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. d Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 175352251
Oxytes brachypoda, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. e Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 174806127
Oxytes brachypoda, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. f Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 173112814
Oxytes brachypoda, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. g Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 170406558
Oxytes brachypoda, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. h Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 169541688

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Oxytes brachypoda is native: New Guinea, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, New Caledonia New GuineaNew South WalesNorthern TerritoryQueenslandVictoriaNew Caledonia
Native distribution of Oxytes brachypoda, 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
Northern Territory NTA
Queensland QLD
Victoria VIC
New Guinea NWG ASIA-TROPICAL
New Caledonia NWC PACIFIC

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 196 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 2.3 °C 6.0 °C 11.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.3 °C 28.2 °C 31.6 °C
Annual rainfall 616 mm 832 mm 1,283 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 86 mm 122 mm 182 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 196 research-grade observations of Oxytes brachypoda 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.

  • Desmodium brachypodum A.Gray
  • Desmodium indigotinum Harms & K.Schum.
  • Meibomia brachypoda (A.Gray) Kuntze
  • Meibomia brachypodia (A.Gray) 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.