Trizeuxis falcataLindl.

WFO wfo-0000328674 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Trizeuxis falcata, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. a Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-10 / obs. 143537789
Trizeuxis falcata, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. b Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115226334
Trizeuxis falcata, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. c Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115226355
Trizeuxis falcata, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. d Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115226069
Trizeuxis falcata, photographed by DANIEL ALEJANDRO CHICA BOTERO
fig. e DANIEL ALEJANDRO CHICA BOTERO, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63892536
Trizeuxis falcata, photographed by GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ
fig. f GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 55142626
Trizeuxis falcata, photographed by Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez
fig. g Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 72160867
Trizeuxis falcata, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. h Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117010817

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Trizeuxis falcata is native: Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guyana, Panamá, Peru, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela BoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorGuyanaPanamáPeruTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela
Native distribution of Trizeuxis falcata, 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
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
Guyana GUY
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN

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 133 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 12.0 °C 16.6 °C 22.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.0 °C 27.0 °C 32.1 °C
Annual rainfall 1,839 mm 2,685 mm 5,352 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 98 mm 318 mm 566 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 133 research-grade observations of Trizeuxis falcata 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.

  • Trizeuxis andina Schltr.

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.