Bridelia tomentosaBlume

WFO wfo-0000428079 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Bridelia tomentosa, photographed by 雲一百香果
fig. a 雲一百香果, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-21 / obs. 199365273
Bridelia tomentosa, photographed by 潘立傑 LICHIEH_PAN
fig. b 潘立傑 LICHIEH_PAN, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192113464
Bridelia tomentosa, photographed by 潘立傑 LICHIEH_PAN
fig. c 潘立傑 LICHIEH_PAN, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192103286
Bridelia tomentosa, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. d Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 184154744
Bridelia tomentosa, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. e Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 181919729
Bridelia tomentosa, photographed by 葉子
fig. f 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 178175814
Bridelia tomentosa, photographed by 葉子
fig. g 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 178001578
Bridelia tomentosa, photographed by 葉子
fig. h 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 177997890

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
76668
Filed as
Bridelia tomentosa Blume
Det. by
S. Dressler 1995-01-01
Collected
C. Wright
Origin
CN
The sheet
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Native range 28 botanical countries

Regions where Bridelia tomentosa is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Taiwan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNepalNew GuineaPhilippinesSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamWest HimalayaNorthern TerritoryQueenslandWestern Australia Andaman Is.Nicobar Is.
Native distribution of Bridelia tomentosa, 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
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Taiwan TAI
Northern Territory NTA AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD
Western Australia WAU

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 1,884 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 11.4 °C 13.7 °C 18.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.9 °C 29.8 °C 30.6 °C
Annual rainfall 1,781 mm 2,148 mm 3,259 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 57 mm 96 mm 201 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 1,884 research-grade observations of Bridelia tomentosa 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 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.

  • Amanoa tomentosa Baill.
  • Bridelia glabrifolia Merr.
  • Bridelia lancaefolia Roxb.
  • Bridelia lancifolia Roxb.
  • Bridelia nayarii P.Basu
  • Bridelia phyllanthoides W.Fitzg.
  • Bridelia rhamnoides Griff.
  • Bridelia tomentosa var. chinensis Müll.Arg.
  • Bridelia tomentosa var. chinensis (Müll.Arg.) Gehrm.
  • Bridelia tomentosa var. eriantha Airy Shaw
  • Bridelia tomentosa var. genuina Müll.Arg.
  • Bridelia tomentosa var. glabrescens Benth.
  • Bridelia tomentosa var. glabrifolia (Merr.) Airy Shaw
  • Bridelia tomentosa var. lancifolia (Roxb.) Müll.Arg.
  • Bridelia tomentosa var. nayarii (P.Basu) Chakrab., M.Gangop. & N.P.Balakr.
  • Bridelia tomentosa var. ovoidea Benth.
  • Bridelia tomentosa var. rhamnoides (Griff.) Müll.Arg.
  • Bridelia tomentosa var. trichadenia Müll.Arg.
  • Bridelia urticoides Griff.
  • Briedelia tomentosa var. ovoidea Benth.
  • Briedelia tomentosa var. tomentosa
  • Briedelia tomentosa var. trichadenia Müll.Arg.
  • Phyllanthus loureiroi Müll.Arg.

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.