Boenninghausenia albiflora(Hook.) Meisn.

WFO wfo-0000567842 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Boenninghausenia albiflora, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-15 / obs. 173182192
Boenninghausenia albiflora, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174791372
Boenninghausenia albiflora, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165293243
Boenninghausenia albiflora, photographed by Hopeland
fig. d Hopeland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160827668
Boenninghausenia albiflora, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. e Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105578210
Boenninghausenia albiflora, photographed by 國立臺灣博物館
fig. f 國立臺灣博物館, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57317142
Boenninghausenia albiflora, photographed by Jerome Ko
fig. g Jerome Ko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 40118534
Boenninghausenia albiflora, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. h Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24172851

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 3686919
Filed as
Boenninghausenia albiflora (Hook.) Rchb. ex Meisn.
Det. by
Esser, Hans -J., (HUH)
Collected
P. Srisanga, M. Norsaengsri, R. Unwin, Tin Tin Mu, Ling Shein Man & L. Shine 2014-03-03
Origin
MM
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Boenninghausenia albiflora is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Taiwan, Tibet, Assam, East Himalaya, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sulawesi, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastJapanTaiwanTibetAssamEast HimalayaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MyanmarNepalPakistanPhilippinesSulawesiThailandVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Boenninghausenia albiflora, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
Philippines PHI
Sulawesi SUL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Japan JAP
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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 274 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -6.3 °C 0.8 °C 8.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 16.8 °C 22.8 °C 29.6 °C
Annual rainfall 1,441 mm 3,032 mm 4,977 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 58 mm 224 mm 354 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 274 research-grade observations of Boenninghausenia albiflora 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 12 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.

  • Bodinieria thalictrifolia H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Boenninghausenia albiflora var. brevipes Franch.
  • Boenninghausenia albiflora var. pilosa Z.M.Tan
  • Boenninghausenia brevipes (Franch.) H.Lév.
  • Boenninghausenia japonica Nakai ex Makino & Nemoto
  • Boenninghausenia japonica Siebold ex Miq.
  • Boenninghausenia schizocarpa S.Y.Hu
  • Boenninghausenia sessilicarpa H.Lév.
  • Podostaurus thalictroides Jungh.
  • Ruta albiflora Hook.
  • Ruta dampatis Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don
  • Ruta japonica Siebold ex Hook.f.

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.