Ardisia crispa(Thunb.) A.DC.

WFO wfo-0000544145 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Ardisia crispa, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-27 / obs. 153871621
Ardisia crispa, photographed by 葉子
fig. b 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 55526418
Ardisia crispa, photographed by Pieter Pelser
fig. c Pieter Pelser, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30091346
Ardisia crispa, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. d 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63295756
Ardisia crispa, photographed by Yoshihiro Tokue
fig. e Yoshihiro Tokue, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30651306
Ardisia crispa, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. f Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153871599
Ardisia crispa, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. g 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63295759
Ardisia crispa, photographed by 葉子
fig. h 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 55526416

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Ardisia crispa is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Assam, Cambodia, East Himalaya, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastJapanTaiwanAssamCambodiaEast HimalayaLaosMyanmarVietnam KoreaNansei-shoto
Native distribution of Ardisia crispa, 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
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
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 23 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 crispa f. leucocarpa (Nakai) H.Ohashi
  • Ardisia crispa f. xanthocarpa (Nakai) H.Ohashi
  • Ardisia crispa var. amplifolia E.Walker
  • Ardisia crispa var. caducipila (Nakai) Ohwi
  • Ardisia crispa var. crispa
  • Ardisia crispa var. dielsii (H.Lév.) E.Walker
  • Ardisia crispa var. elegans A.DC.
  • Ardisia dielsii H.Lév.
  • Ardisia henryi Hemsl.
  • Ardisia henryi var. dielsii (H.Lév.) E.Walker
  • Ardisia hortorum Maxim.
  • Ardisia hortorum var. brachysepala Hand.-Mazz.
  • Ardisia multicaulis Z.Y.Zhu
  • Ardisia simplicicaulis Hayata
  • Ardisia undulata C.B.Clarke
  • Bladhia crispa Thunb.
  • Bladhia crispa f. leucocarpa Nakai
  • Bladhia crispa f. xanthocarpa Nakai
  • Bladhia crispa var. caducipila Nakai
  • Bladhia crispa var. dielsii (H.Lév.) Nakai
  • Tinus crispa (Thunb.) Kuntze
  • Tinus henryi (Hemsl.) Kuntze
  • Tinus undulata (C.B.Clarke) Kuntze

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.