Ardisia crenataSims

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WFO wfo-0000544135 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ardisia crenata, photographed by Nonbinary-Naturalist
fig. a Nonbinary-Naturalist, CC0 1.0 / 2022-04-17 / obs. 188895826

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Ardisia crenata is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Tibet, Assam, Cambodia, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanJapanTaiwanTibetAssamCambodiaIndiaLaosMalayaMyanmarPhilippinesSri LankaThailandVietnam KoreaNansei-shoto
Native distribution of Ardisia crenata, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Cambodia CBD
India IND
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT

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.

Flowering 38 in flower of 806 examined

Proportion of examined Ardisia crenata in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 4 125 3% 1% to 8%
Feb 1 117 1% 0% to 5%
Mar 4 119 3% 1% to 8%
Apr 2 128 2% 0% to 6%
May 8 58 14% 7% to 25%
Jun 6 27 22% 11% to 41%
Jul 7 29 24% 12% to 42%
Aug 3 30 10% 3% to 26%
Sep 0 29 0% 0% to 12%
Oct 1 32 3% 1% to 16%
Nov 0 36 0% 0% to 10%
Dec 2 76 3% 1% to 9%

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Ardisia crenata observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 38 of 806 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 41 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.

  • Ardisia aquifolioides W.Z.Fang & K.Yao
  • Ardisia bicolor E.Walker
  • Ardisia crassinervosa E.Walker
  • Ardisia crenata f. hortensis (Migo) W.Z.Fang & K.Yao
  • Ardisia crenata f. leucocarpa (Nakai) T.Yamanaka
  • Ardisia crenata f. taguetii (Nakai) Ohwi
  • Ardisia crenata f. taquetii (H.Lév.) Ohwi
  • Ardisia crenata f. xanthocarpa F.Y.Zhang & G.Y.Li
  • Ardisia crenata f. xanthocarpa (Nakai) H.Ohashi
  • Ardisia crenata subsp. mouretii (Pit.) C.M.Hu & J.E.Vidal
  • Ardisia crenata var. bicolor (E.Walker) C.Y.Wu & C.Chen
  • Ardisia crenata var. taquetii (H.Lév.) T.B.Lee
  • Ardisia crenulata G.Lodd.
  • Ardisia crispa var. angusta (C.B.Clarke) Mez
  • Ardisia crispa var. taquetii H.Lév.
  • Ardisia densa Miq.
  • Ardisia elegans Andrews
  • Ardisia glandulosa Blume
  • Ardisia konishii Hayata
  • Ardisia kusukusensis Hayata
  • Ardisia labordei H.Lév.
  • Ardisia lentiginosa Ker Gawl.
  • Ardisia lentiginosa var. rectangularis Hatus.
  • Ardisia linangensis C.M.Hu

and 17 more.

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.

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