Perama hirsutaAubl.

WFO wfo-0000267192 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 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.

Perama hirsuta, photographed by william_hoyer
fig. a william_hoyer, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-06-02 / obs. 40852009
Perama hirsuta, photographed by william_hoyer
fig. b william_hoyer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 40852044
Perama hirsuta, photographed by william_hoyer
fig. c william_hoyer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 40852021
Perama hirsuta, photographed by william_hoyer
fig. d william_hoyer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 40852030

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
397991
Filed as
Perama hirsuta Aubl.
Det. by
A. M. V. de Carvalho 1981-05-01
Collected
A. M. V. de Carvalho 1981-04-21
Origin
BR
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 12 botanical countries

Regions where Perama hirsuta is native: Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is. BoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaFrench GuianaGuyanaSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela Windward Is.
Native distribution of Perama hirsuta, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
French Guiana FRG
Guyana GUY
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN

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 127 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 20.5 °C 22.8 °C 24.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 29.2 °C 30.9 °C 32.6 °C
Annual rainfall 1,437 mm 3,086 mm 3,449 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 97 mm 249 mm 293 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 127 research-grade observations of Perama hirsuta 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 9 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.

  • Mattuschkaea hirsuta (Aubl.) Vahl
  • Mattuschkaea incana Spreng.
  • Mattuschkaea perama Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Perama ericoides Poepp.
  • Perama hirsuta var. hirsuta
  • Perama hirsuta var. stricta (Benth.) Bremek.
  • Perama hispida Poir.
  • Perama setulosa Miq.
  • Perama stricta Benth.

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.