Cinnamomum bejolghota(Buch.-Ham.) Sweet

WFO wfo-0000604917 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 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.

Cinnamomum bejolghota, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. a Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-03-09 / obs. 184450444
Cinnamomum bejolghota, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 184450445
Cinnamomum bejolghota, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 184450446

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000350947
Filed as
Cinnamomum bejolghota (Buch.-Ham.) Sweet
Det. by
Kostermans, A.J.G.H.
Collected
Wallich, N.
Origin
PK
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Cinnamomum bejolghota is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, East Himalaya, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanAssamBangladeshCambodiaEast HimalayaLaosMyanmarNepalThailandVietnam Andaman Is.
Native distribution of Cinnamomum bejolghota, 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
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH

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 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.

  • Cinnamomum bazania (Buch.-Ham.) Nees
  • Cinnamomum obtusifolium (Roxb.) Nees
  • Cinnamomum obtusifolium var. vanhouttei Lukman.
  • Cinnamomum sikkimense Lukman.
  • Cinnamomum soncaurium (Buch.-Ham.) T.Nees & C.H.Eberm.
  • Cinnamomum van-houttei Lukman.
  • Laurus bazania Buch.-Ham.
  • Laurus bejolghota Buch.-Ham.
  • Laurus benzoin Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.
  • Laurus bezolghota Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.
  • Laurus cassia Wight ex Nees
  • Laurus cinnamomum Wight ex Nees
  • Laurus macrophylla Wall.
  • Laurus obtusifolia Wall.
  • Laurus obtusifolia Roxb.
  • Laurus soncaurium 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.

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