Pseudodictamnus acetabulosus(L.) Salmaki & Siadati

WFO wfo-0001427319 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Pseudodictamnus acetabulosus, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. a Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-19 / obs. 189448577
Pseudodictamnus acetabulosus, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. b Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130042344
Pseudodictamnus acetabulosus, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. c Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 127960596
Pseudodictamnus acetabulosus, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. d Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115117187
Pseudodictamnus acetabulosus, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. e Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115115009
Pseudodictamnus acetabulosus, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. f Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109750666
Pseudodictamnus acetabulosus, photographed by Grzegorz Grzejszczak
fig. g Grzegorz Grzejszczak, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 55228026
Pseudodictamnus acetabulosus, photographed by Grzegorz Grzejszczak
fig. h Grzegorz Grzejszczak, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 54878484

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Pseudodictamnus acetabulosus is native: East Aegean Is., Türkiye, Greece, Kriti, Türkiye-in-Europe East Aegean Is.TürkiyeGreeceKritiTürkiye-in-Europe
Native distribution of Pseudodictamnus acetabulosus, 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
Greece GRC EUROPE
Kriti KRI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Türkiye TUR

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 249 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 2.9 °C 8.0 °C 11.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.4 °C 26.7 °C 33.0 °C
Annual rainfall 354 mm 471 mm 958 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 2 mm 13 mm 58 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 249 research-grade observations of Pseudodictamnus acetabulosus 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 6 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.

  • Ballota acetabulosa (L.) Benth.
  • Beringeria acetabulosa (L.) Neck. ex Link
  • Marrubium acetabulosum L.
  • Marrubium adfine Spreng.
  • Marrubium suffruticosum Mill.
  • Moluccella fruticosa Forssk.

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.