Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Flowering 145 in flower of 147 examined
Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Pavonia cancellata 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. 145 of 147 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 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.
Where it actually grows measured, from 236 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 14.1 °C | 21.4 °C | 24.3 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 27.5 °C | 30.3 °C | 35.4 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 675 mm | 1,285 mm | 2,728 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 8 mm | 44 mm | 228 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 236 research-grade observations of Pavonia cancellata 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.
Also published as 17 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.
- Abelmoschus cancellatus (L.f.) Voigt
- Hibiscus anonimus Mart. ex Colla
- Hibiscus cancellatus L.
- Malache cancellata (L.) Kuntze
- Malache deltoides (Mart.) Kuntze
- Malache modesta (Mart.) Kuntze
- Malache sulphurea Kuntze
- Pavonia cancellata f. montana Huber
- Pavonia cancellata var. cordata Hassl.
- Pavonia cancellata var. crassivenosa Gürke
- Pavonia cancellata var. deltoidea (Mart.) A.St.-Hil. & Naudin
- Pavonia cancellata var. modesta (Mart.) Garcke
- Pavonia deltoidea Mart.
- Pavonia guanacastensis Standl.
- Pavonia modesta Mart.
- Pavonia procumbens Casar.
- Pavonia sulphurea Steud.
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.
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. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.