Clausena anisata(Willd.) Hook.f.

dentate clausena

WFO wfo-0000608620 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Clausena anisata, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. a Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-04-30 / obs. 124207789
Clausena anisata, photographed by Jimmy Whatmore
fig. b Jimmy Whatmore, CC0 1.0 / obs. 102254797
Clausena anisata, photographed by Ajit Ampalakkad
fig. c Ajit Ampalakkad, CC0 1.0 / obs. 47002603
Clausena anisata, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49142263
Clausena anisata, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. e Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194247660
Clausena anisata, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. f Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165043528
Clausena anisata, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. g Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164954088
Clausena anisata, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. h Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125283532

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Native range 44 botanical countries

Regions where Clausena anisata is native: Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, DR Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Free State, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, China South-Central, China Southeast, Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam AngolaBeninBurundiCameroonCape ProvincesCentral African RepublicChadCongoDR CongoEswatiniEthiopiaFree StateGabonGhanaGuineaGulf of Guinea Is.Ivory CoastKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMalawiMaliMozambiqueNigeriaNorthern ProvincesRwandaSierra LeoneSudan-South SudanTanzaniaTogoUgandaZambiaZimbabweChina South-CentralChina SoutheastAssamBangladeshEast HimalayaIndiaLaosMyanmarNepalSri LankaThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Clausena anisata, 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
Angola ANG AFRICA
Benin BEN
Burundi BUR
Cameroon CMN
Cape Provinces CPP
Central African Republic CAF
Chad CHA
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Free State OFS
Gabon GAB
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Gulf of Guinea Is. GGI
Ivory Coast IVO
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Malawi MLW
Mali MLI
Mozambique MOZ
Nigeria NGA
Northern Provinces TVL
Rwanda RWA
Sierra Leone SIE
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Togo TOG
Uganda UGA
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Sri Lanka SRL
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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 342 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 3.3 °C 11.3 °C 17.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.7 °C 25.0 °C 33.0 °C
Annual rainfall 556 mm 732 mm 1,180 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 32 mm 99 mm 167 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 342 research-grade observations of Clausena anisata 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 43 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.

  • Amyris anisata Willd.
  • Amyris dentata Willd.
  • Amyris inaequalis Spreng.
  • Amyris nana Roxb.
  • Amyris suffruticosa Roxb.
  • Clausena abyssinica Engl.
  • Clausena anisata subsp. abyssinica (Engl.) Cufod.
  • Clausena anisata var. mollis Engl.
  • Clausena anisata var. multijuga Welw. ex Hiern
  • Clausena anisata var. paucijuga (Kurz) Molino
  • Clausena bergeyckiana De Wild. & T.Durand
  • Clausena dentata (Willd.) M.Roem.
  • Clausena dentata var. dunniana (H.Lév.) Swingle
  • Clausena dentata var. longipes (Craib) Tanaka
  • Clausena dentata var. nana (Roxb.) N.P.Balakr.
  • Clausena dentata var. pubescens (Wight & Arn.) N.P.Balakr.
  • Clausena dentata var. robusta Yu.Tanaka
  • Clausena dunniana H.Lév.
  • Clausena dunniana var. robusta (Tan.) C.C.Huang
  • Clausena inaequalis (DC.) Benth.
  • Clausena inaequalis var. abyssinica Engl.
  • Clausena longipes Craib
  • Clausena nana Wight & Arn.
  • Clausena odorata C.C.Huang

and 19 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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol CLDE9. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.