Cinnamomum iners(Reinw. ex Nees & T.Nees) Blume

WFO wfo-0000605131 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

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.

Cinnamomum iners, photographed by Nasser Halaweh
fig. a Nasser Halaweh, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-01-01 / obs. 59414314
Cinnamomum iners, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. b Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 55603798
Cinnamomum iners, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. c Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 55281164
Cinnamomum iners, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. d Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 51184333
Cinnamomum iners, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. e Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 49040142
Cinnamomum iners, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. f Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 23945412
Cinnamomum iners, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. g Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 23945420
Cinnamomum iners, photographed by Cheongweei Gan
fig. h Cheongweei Gan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171166861

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Cinnamomum iners is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Tibet, Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Christmas I., India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastTibetAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaIndiaJawaLaosMalayaMyanmarPhilippinesSri LankaSumateraThailandVietnam Christmas I.
Native distribution of Cinnamomum iners, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
Christmas I. XMS
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
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.

Also published as 29 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.

  • Camphora lanceolata Lukman.
  • Cinnamomum aromaticum Zoll.
  • Cinnamomum calyculatum Miq.
  • Cinnamomum curtisii Lukman.
  • Cinnamomum dasyanthum Miq.
  • Cinnamomum eucalyptoides Nees
  • Cinnamomum gracile Miq.
  • Cinnamomum griffithii Meisn.
  • Cinnamomum iners var. angustifolium Ridl.
  • Cinnamomum iners var. latum Blume
  • Cinnamomum javanicum var. neglectum (Blume) Meisn.
  • Cinnamomum manillarum Lukman.
  • Cinnamomum neglectum Blume
  • Cinnamomum nitidum Nees
  • Cinnamomum nitidum f. angustifolium Miq.
  • Cinnamomum nitidum f. borneense Miq.
  • Cinnamomum nitidum var. iners (Reinw. ex Nees & T.Nees) Miq.
  • Cinnamomum nitidum var. oblongifolium Blume
  • Cinnamomum nitidum var. spurium Blume
  • Cinnamomum nitidum var. subcuneatum Blume
  • Cinnamomum rauwolfii Blume
  • Cinnamomum reinwardtii Miq.
  • Cinnamomum subcuneatum Miq.
  • Laurus caryophyllata Reinw. ex Meisn.

and 5 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.