Chloranthus officinalisBlume

WFO wfo-0000603121 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Chloranthus officinalis, photographed by Shaan Aroeste
fig. a Shaan Aroeste, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-26 / obs. 184810953
Chloranthus officinalis, photographed by Shaan Aroeste
fig. b Shaan Aroeste, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184810960
Chloranthus officinalis, photographed by Shaan Aroeste
fig. c Shaan Aroeste, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184810974
Chloranthus officinalis, photographed by Shaan Aroeste
fig. d Shaan Aroeste, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184810977

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
01062051
Filed as
Chloranthus officinalis Blume
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 22 botanical countries

Regions where Chloranthus officinalis is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastAssamBangladeshBismarck ArchipelagoBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNepalNew GuineaPhilippinesSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnam Andaman Is.
Native distribution of Chloranthus officinalis, 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
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS

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.

Also published as 7 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.

  • Chloranthus elatior R.Br.
  • Chloranthus elatior Link
  • Chloranthus erectus Sweet
  • Chloranthus inconspicuus Blanco
  • Chloranthus salicifolius C.Presl
  • Chloranthus sumatranus Miq.
  • Cryphaea erecta Buch.-Ham.

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.