Phelypaea coccinea

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Phelypaea coccinea, photographed by Anna Shuliko — fig. b Anna Shuliko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201556936

Phelypaea coccinea, photographed by Todd Boland — fig. c Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108431145

Phelypaea coccinea, photographed by Дауд Арсанукаев — fig. d Дауд Арсанукаев, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202672122

Phelypaea coccinea, photographed by sergleb — fig. e sergleb, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133606510

Phelypaea coccinea, photographed by Andre Hosper — fig. h Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9931221

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium: Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession: US 1134145
Filed as: Phelypaea coccinea (M.Bieb.) Poir.
Det. by: not recorded on this sheet
Collected: A. Florensky 1912-05-25
Origin: GE
The sheet: View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

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 8 botanical countries

Native distribution of Phelypaea coccinea, 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
Iran	IRN	ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iraq	IRQ
Lebanon-Syria	LBS
North Caucasus	NCS
Transcaucasus	TCS
Türkiye	TUR
Greece	GRC	EUROPE
Krym	KRY

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 260 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	-12.8 °C	-8.1 °C	-3.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	18.1 °C	23.1 °C	28.0 °C
Annual rainfall	550 mm	787 mm	1,457 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	63 mm	94 mm	194 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 260 research-grade observations of Phelypaea coccinea 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 14 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.

Aeginetia coccinea Juss. ex Walp.
Anoplanthus biebersteinii Reut.
Anoplanthus coccineus (M.Bieb.) Walp.
Anoplanthus tournefortii Reut.
Anoplon biebersteinii C.A.Mey.
Anoplon coccineum (M.Bieb.) Riedl & Schiman-Czeika
Diphelypaea coccinea (M.Bieb.) Nicolson
Lathraea anblatum L.
Lathraea phelipaea Gueldenst.
Orobanche coccinea M.Bieb.
Orobanche phelypaea M.Bieb.
Phelypaea bayernii Novopokr.
Phelypaea biebersteinii Fisch. ex Walp.
Phelypaea foliata Lamb.

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.