Proiphys amboinensis(L.) Herb.

WFO wfo-0000727150 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, 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.

Proiphys amboinensis, photographed by Hugo Innes
fig. a Hugo Innes, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-13 / obs. 197210636
Proiphys amboinensis, photographed by coenobita
fig. b coenobita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 25970124
Proiphys amboinensis, photographed by Hugo Innes
fig. c Hugo Innes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197210655
Proiphys amboinensis, photographed by coenobita
fig. d coenobita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 25970172
Proiphys amboinensis, photographed by Hugo Innes
fig. e Hugo Innes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197210659
Proiphys amboinensis, photographed by coenobita
fig. f coenobita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 25970182
Proiphys amboinensis, photographed by coenobita
fig. g coenobita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 25970205

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Proiphys amboinensis is native: Bismarck Archipelago, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Sulawesi, Queensland, Western Australia, Vanuatu Bismarck ArchipelagoLesser Sunda Is.MalukuNew GuineaPhilippinesSulawesiQueenslandWestern Australia Vanuatu
Native distribution of Proiphys amboinensis, 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
Bismarck Archipelago BIS ASIA-TROPICAL
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Maluku MOL
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Sulawesi SUL
Queensland QLD AUSTRALASIA
Western Australia WAU
Vanuatu VAN PACIFIC

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 50 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 13.0 °C 18.8 °C 23.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.1 °C 29.9 °C 33.9 °C
Annual rainfall 914 mm 1,911 mm 3,436 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 13 mm 92 mm 533 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 50 research-grade observations of Proiphys amboinensis 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 21 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.

  • Amaryllis rotundifolia Lam.
  • Cearia amboinensis (L.) Dumort.
  • Cepa amboinensis (L.) Kuntze
  • Crinum nervosum Roxb.
  • Crinum nervosum L'Hér.
  • Eurycles alata Sweet
  • Eurycles amboinensis (L.) Lindl.
  • Eurycles australasica (Ker Gawl.) G.Don
  • Eurycles australis Schult.f.
  • Eurycles coronata Sweet
  • Eurycles javanica M.Roem.
  • Eurycles nervosa G.Don ex Loudon
  • Eurycles nuda Sweet
  • Eurycles rotundifolia M.Roem.
  • Eurycles sylvestris Salisb. ex Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Pancratium amboinense L.
  • Pancratium australasicum Ker Gawl.
  • Pancratium australe Spreng.
  • Pancratium nervifolium Salisb.
  • Pancratium ovatifolium Stokes
  • Stemonix nervosus (L'Hér.) Raf.

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.