Agrostistachys indicaDalzell

WFO wfo-0000925599 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Agrostistachys indica, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. a T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-09-09 / obs. 104705856
Agrostistachys indica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. b Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49138912
Agrostistachys indica, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. c T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194625040
Agrostistachys indica, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. d T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194625060
Agrostistachys indica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. e Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49138883
Agrostistachys indica, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. f T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194625080
Agrostistachys indica, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. g T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 104705897
Agrostistachys indica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. h Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49138893

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Agrostistachys indica is native: Borneo, Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam BorneoCambodiaIndiaLaosMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSri LankaThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Agrostistachys indica, 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
Borneo BOR ASIA-TROPICAL
Cambodia CBD
India IND
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE

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.

Also published as 10 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.

  • Agrostistachys indica subsp. genuina (Müll.Arg.) Pax & K.Hoffm.
  • Agrostistachys indica subsp. longifolia (Müll.Arg.) Pax & K.Hoffm.
  • Agrostistachys indica var. genuina Müll.Arg.
  • Agrostistachys indica var. longifolia Müll.Arg.
  • Agrostistachys indica var. maesoana (Vidal) Pax & K.Hoffm.
  • Agrostistachys indica var. massoana (Vidal) Pax & K.Hoffm.
  • Agrostistachys indica var. subintegra Pax & K.Hoffm.
  • Agrostistachys longifolia Kurz
  • Agrostistachys maesoana Vidal
  • Heterocalyx laoticus Gagnep.

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.

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