Champereia manillana(Blume) Merr.

WFO wfo-0000599823 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Champereia manillana, photographed by chiuluan
fig. a chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203258147
Champereia manillana, photographed by 葉子
fig. b 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190582122
Champereia manillana, photographed by 葉子
fig. c 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190280694
Champereia manillana, photographed by koala0090
fig. d koala0090, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182153469
Champereia manillana, photographed by 謝麗霦
fig. e 謝麗霦, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176885476
Champereia manillana, photographed by 謝麗霦
fig. f 謝麗霦, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176885575
Champereia manillana, photographed by 謝麗霦
fig. g 謝麗霦, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175380996
Champereia manillana, photographed by Licheng Shih
fig. h Licheng Shih, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175704152

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000271865
Filed as
Champereia manillana (Blume) Merr.
Det. by
Dr. Tim Utteridge
Collected
Ag. Amin
Origin
MY
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Champereia manillana is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Taiwan, Andaman Is., Borneo, Christmas I., Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastTaiwanBorneoJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnam Andaman Is.Christmas I.Nicobar Is.
Native distribution of Champereia manillana, 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
Borneo BOR
Christmas I. XMS
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Taiwan TAI

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 1,819 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 12.0 °C 15.1 °C 20.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.6 °C 29.8 °C 30.6 °C
Annual rainfall 1,844 mm 2,101 mm 2,995 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 57 mm 73 mm 179 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 1,819 research-grade observations of Champereia manillana 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 16 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.

  • Cansjera manillana Blume
  • Cansjera martabanica Wall.
  • Champereia cumingiana (Baill.) Merr.
  • Champereia gaudichaudiana (Baill.) Tiegh.
  • Champereia gnetocarpa Kurz
  • Champereia griffithiana Planch. ex Kurz
  • Champereia lanceolata Merr.
  • Champereia longistaminea (W.Z.Li) D.D.Tao
  • Champereia oblongifolia Merr.
  • Champereia platyphylla Merr.
  • Govantesia malulucban Llanos
  • Melientha longistaminea W.Z.Li
  • Nallogia gaudichaudiana Baill.
  • Opilia cumingiana Baill.
  • Opilia manillana (Blume) Baill.
  • Yunnanopilia longistaminea (W.Z.Li) C.Y.Wu & D.Z.Li

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.