Triumfetta semitrilobaJacq.

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WFO wfo-0000458140 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Triumfetta semitriloba, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. a Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-06 / obs. 167894236
Triumfetta semitriloba, photographed by Viacheslav Shalisko
fig. b Viacheslav Shalisko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118794898
Triumfetta semitriloba, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. c Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61408280
Triumfetta semitriloba, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. d Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61241362
Triumfetta semitriloba, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. e Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61184734
Triumfetta semitriloba, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. f Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61087729
Triumfetta semitriloba, photographed by Juan Cruzado Cortés
fig. g Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 60128377
Triumfetta semitriloba, photographed by Ben Machado
fig. h Ben Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 33391482

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Native range 37 botanical countries

Regions where Triumfetta semitriloba is native: Florida, Georgia, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is. FloridaGeorgiaMexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestArgentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEl SalvadorGuatemalaGuyanaHaitiHondurasJamaicaPanamáParaguayPeruPuerto RicoTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela BahamasBermudaCayman Is.Leeward Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Triumfetta semitriloba, 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
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Bahamas BAH
Bermuda BER
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Cayman Is. CAY
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN
Florida FLA NORTHERN AMERICA
Georgia GEO
Mexico Central MXC
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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 630 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 9.5 °C 16.6 °C 22.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.2 °C 29.9 °C 31.7 °C
Annual rainfall 961 mm 1,539 mm 2,878 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 35 mm 162 mm 348 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 630 research-grade observations of Triumfetta semitriloba 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 20 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.

  • Heliocarpus hirtus (Vahl) R.O.Williams & Sandwith
  • Triumfetta acutiloba DC.
  • Triumfetta calyculata Vell.
  • Triumfetta diversiloba C.Presl
  • Triumfetta havanensis Kunth
  • Triumfetta hirta Vahl
  • Triumfetta obscura A.St.-Hil.
  • Triumfetta ovata DC.
  • Triumfetta oxyphylla DC.
  • Triumfetta rubricaulis Kunth
  • Triumfetta semitriloba f. havanensis (Kunth) K.Schum.
  • Triumfetta semitriloba var. berlandieri Hochr.
  • Triumfetta semitriloba var. brasiliensis K.Schum.
  • Triumfetta semitriloba var. havanensis (Kunth) Millsp.
  • Triumfetta semitriloba var. martiana K.Schum.
  • Triumfetta semitriloba var. typica K.Schum.
  • Triumfetta sloanei Fawc. & Rendle
  • Triumfetta tiliifolia Vahl ex DC.
  • Triumfetta tricuspis A.St.-Hil.
  • Triumfetta ulmifolia Desv.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.