Piptadenia gonoacantha(Mart.) J.F.Macbr.

WFO wfo-0000168399 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Piptadenia gonoacantha, photographed by Carlo Brescia
fig. a Carlo Brescia, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-07 / obs. 204268178
Piptadenia gonoacantha, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. b Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154064971
Piptadenia gonoacantha, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. c Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142100756
Piptadenia gonoacantha, photographed by Filipi Miranda Soares
fig. d Filipi Miranda Soares, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111525256
Piptadenia gonoacantha, photographed by Filipi Miranda Soares
fig. e Filipi Miranda Soares, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108760956
Piptadenia gonoacantha, photographed by B. Phalan
fig. f B. Phalan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9722695
Piptadenia gonoacantha, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. g Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 51770443
Piptadenia gonoacantha, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. h Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118924611

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Piptadenia gonoacantha is native: Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Peru BoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaPeru
Native distribution of Piptadenia gonoacantha, 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
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Peru PER

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 328 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 10.4 °C 12.2 °C 16.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 25.6 °C 27.3 °C 29.5 °C
Annual rainfall 1,345 mm 1,563 mm 2,002 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 34 mm 139 mm 319 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 328 research-grade observations of Piptadenia gonoacantha 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 7 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.

  • Acacia callosa Spreng.
  • Acacia gonoacantha Mart.
  • Piptadenia communis Benth.
  • Piptadenia communis var. inermis Hassl.
  • Piptadenia gonoacantha var. gonoacantha
  • Piptadenia gonoacantha var. inermis Burkart
  • Pityrocarpa gonoacantha (Mart.) Brenan

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.