Casearia glomerataRoxb.

WFO wfo-0000923979 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 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.

Casearia glomerata, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-20 / obs. 183891764
Casearia glomerata, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130229501
Casearia glomerata, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130229579
Casearia glomerata, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 123848743
Casearia glomerata, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. e Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109921627
Casearia glomerata, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. f Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 101852695
Casearia glomerata, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. g 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63300027
Casearia glomerata, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. h Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183891756

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
5005595
Filed as
Casearia glomerata Roxb.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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 11 botanical countries

Regions where Casearia glomerata is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Taiwan, Tibet, Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanTibetAssamBangladeshEast HimalayaMyanmarNepalVietnam
Native distribution of Casearia glomerata, 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
Bangladesh BAN
East Himalaya EHM
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
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 214 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 9.3 °C 12.3 °C 14.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.8 °C 29.0 °C 30.3 °C
Annual rainfall 1,889 mm 3,597 mm 4,843 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 79 mm 511 mm 844 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 214 research-grade observations of Casearia glomerata 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 5 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.

  • Casearia glomerata f. pubinervis How & Ko
  • Casearia glomerata var. glomerata
  • Casearia glomerata var. sikkimensis (N.Mukh.) R.C.Srivast.
  • Casearia sikkimensis N.Mukh.
  • Guidonia glomerata (Roxb.) Kurz

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.