Carallia brachiata(Lour.) Merr.

WFO wfo-0000586012 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Carallia brachiata, photographed by madhavan a.p
fig. a madhavan a.p, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-07 / obs. 192830894
Carallia brachiata, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. b Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 177751292
Carallia brachiata, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. c Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 171192984
Carallia brachiata, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. d Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 169751601
Carallia brachiata, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. e Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 166339959
Carallia brachiata, photographed by Samuel Lee
fig. f Samuel Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151576159
Carallia brachiata, photographed by OnePlanet
fig. g OnePlanet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144025798
Carallia brachiata, photographed by OnePlanet
fig. h OnePlanet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 143809181

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000732714
Filed as
Carallia brachiata (Lour.) Merr.
Det. by
Ding Hou
Collected
Ridley, H.N.
Origin
MY
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 31 botanical countries

Regions where Carallia brachiata is native: Madagascar, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia MadagascarChina South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanAssamBangladeshBismarck ArchipelagoBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNepalNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.Sri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamNorthern TerritoryQueenslandWestern Australia Andaman Is.Nicobar Is.
Native distribution of Carallia brachiata, 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
Bismarck Archipelago BIS
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Northern Territory NTA AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD
Western Australia WAU
Madagascar MDG AFRICA

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 247 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 11.9 °C 18.3 °C 24.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 28.2 °C 30.0 °C 35.8 °C
Annual rainfall 1,332 mm 2,160 mm 3,779 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 4 mm 88 mm 496 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 247 research-grade observations of Carallia brachiata 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 48 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.

  • Baraultia madagascariensis (DC.) Steud. ex Spreng.
  • Barraldeia madagascariensis DC.
  • Barraldeia madagascariensis DC.
  • Bruguiera nemorosa Blanco
  • Carallia arguta Koord. & Valeton
  • Carallia baraldeia Arn.
  • Carallia celebica Blume
  • Carallia cerisopsifolia Miq.
  • Carallia ceylanica Arn.
  • Carallia confinis Blume
  • Carallia confinis var. latifolia Miq.
  • Carallia confinis var. oxyodon Miq.
  • Carallia confinis var. pauciflora Blume
  • Carallia corymbosa Arn.
  • Carallia cuprea Ridl.
  • Carallia cuspidata Blume
  • Carallia densiflora Griff.
  • Carallia floribunda Miq.
  • Carallia integerrima DC.
  • Carallia integrifolia J.Graham
  • Carallia lanceaefolia Roxb.
  • Carallia lanceolaria Wall.
  • Carallia lucida Roxb.
  • Carallia madagascariensis (DC.) Tul.

and 24 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. 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.