Pilea funkikensisHayata

WFO wfo-0001220202 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Pilea funkikensis, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-08 / obs. 180233505
Pilea funkikensis, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173181855
Pilea funkikensis, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174823860
Pilea funkikensis, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130228459
Pilea funkikensis, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. e Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125874454
Pilea funkikensis, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. f Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11475734
Pilea funkikensis, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. g 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63090276
Pilea funkikensis, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. h Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 70664607

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Pilea funkikensis is native: Taiwan Taiwan
Native distribution of Pilea funkikensis, 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
Taiwan TAI ASIA-TEMPERATE

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 109 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 4.4 °C 8.1 °C 14.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 21.1 °C 24.1 °C 28.6 °C
Annual rainfall 2,840 mm 4,172 mm 4,415 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 110 mm 186 mm 461 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 109 research-grade observations of Pilea funkikensis 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.

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.