Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Where it actually grows measured, from 46 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 3.8 °C | 6.2 °C | 10.0 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 18.4 °C | 20.8 °C | 22.0 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 1,160 mm | 1,505 mm | 2,039 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 219 mm | 283 mm | 400 mm |
It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 46 research-grade observations of Plagiochila trispicata 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 8 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.
- Plagiochila arbuscula var. rekohuensis J.J.Engel & G.L.Merr.
- Plagiochila calcarata Herzog
- Plagiochila heterophylla Colenso
- Plagiochila longissima Colenso
- Plagiochila polystachya Colenso
- Plagiochila subflabellata Colenso
- Plagiochila trispicata var. rekohuensis (J.J.Engel & G.L.Merr.) M.A.M.Renner
- Plagiochila trispicata var. trispicata
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.