Satyrium sphaerocarpumLindl.

WFO wfo-0000304900 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Satyrium sphaerocarpum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-02-10 / obs. 113222012
Satyrium sphaerocarpum, photographed by James Deacon
fig. b James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 115021073
Satyrium sphaerocarpum, photographed by James Deacon
fig. c James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 114899467
Satyrium sphaerocarpum, photographed by Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan
fig. d Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 70634041
Satyrium sphaerocarpum, photographed by Antoinette Eyssell Knox
fig. e Antoinette Eyssell Knox, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 182225551
Satyrium sphaerocarpum, photographed by Seth Musker
fig. f Seth Musker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30600570
Satyrium sphaerocarpum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 113181398
Satyrium sphaerocarpum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 113222378

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Satyrium sphaerocarpum is native: Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique Cape ProvincesKwaZulu-NatalMozambique
Native distribution of Satyrium sphaerocarpum, 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
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Mozambique MOZ

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 200 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -1.1 °C 14.2 °C 18.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 21.6 °C 25.4 °C 27.8 °C
Annual rainfall 912 mm 1,084 mm 1,307 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 53 mm 129 mm 157 mm

It is found where winters bring light frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 200 research-grade observations of Satyrium sphaerocarpum 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 1 synonym

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.

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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.