Parsonsia capsularis

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Parsonsia capsularis, photographed by Jaco Grundling — fig. c Jaco Grundling, CC0 1.0 / obs. 124381155

Parsonsia capsularis, photographed by Christopher Stephens — fig. d Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 125103070

Parsonsia capsularis, photographed by Cara-Lisa Schloots — fig. e Cara-Lisa Schloots, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107845870

Parsonsia capsularis, photographed by Paul Bell-Butler — fig. f Paul Bell-Butler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 103437947

Parsonsia capsularis, photographed by John Barkla — fig. g John Barkla, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60016097

Parsonsia capsularis, photographed by Joe Potter Butler — fig. h Joe Potter Butler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57920420

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Native distribution of Parsonsia capsularis, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
New Zealand North	NZN	AUSTRALASIA
New Zealand South	NZS

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.

Flowering 172 in flower of 220 examined

55%

45%

73%

71%

50%

58%

88%

97%

91%

Proportion of examined Parsonsia capsularis in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	12	22	55%	35% to 73%
Feb	5	11	45%	21% to 72%
Mar	8	11	73%	43% to 90%
Apr	10	14	71%	45% to 88%
May	0	2	too few examined
Jun	5	10	50%	24% to 76%
Jul	2	3	too few examined
Aug	0	4	too few examined
Sep	7	12	58%	32% to 81%
Oct	22	25	88%	70% to 96%
Nov	69	71	97%	90% to 99%
Dec	32	35	91%	78% to 97%

Peak flowering in Nov. Each bar is the share of Parsonsia capsularis observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 172 of 220 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

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.

Parsonsia capsularis var. grandiflora Carse
Parsonsia capsularis var. ochracea Colenso
Parsonsia capsularis var. parviflora Carse
Parsonsia capsularis var. rosea (Raoul) Cockayne
Parsonsia capsularis var. tenuis G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Parsonsia forsteri G.Don
Parsonsia ochracea Colenso
Parsonsia rosea Raoul
Parsonsia variabilis Lindl.
Parsonsia variabilis Baill. ex S.Moore
Periploca capsularis G.Forst.
Periploca capsularis G.Forst.
Periploca forsteri Decne.

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.