Comanthosphace japonica(Miq.) S.Moore

WFO wfo-0000918411 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.

Comanthosphace japonica, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. a Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-09-13 / obs. 51996459
Comanthosphace japonica, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. b Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50579179
Comanthosphace japonica, photographed by harum.koh
fig. c harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 10747737
Comanthosphace japonica, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. d Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 51996112
Comanthosphace japonica, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. e Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50579194
Comanthosphace japonica, photographed by Kai Löhr
fig. f Kai Löhr, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59789156
Comanthosphace japonica, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. g Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 51996438
Comanthosphace japonica, photographed by Kai Löhr
fig. h Kai Löhr, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59789161

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Comanthosphace japonica is native: China Southeast, Japan China SoutheastJapan
Native distribution of Comanthosphace japonica, 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
China Southeast CHS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Japan JAP

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 20 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.

  • Comanthosphace barbinervis (Miq.) S.Moore
  • Comanthosphace hakonensis Koidz.
  • Comanthosphace japonica var. barbinervis (Miq.) Makino
  • Comanthosphace stellipila f. sublanceolata (Miq.) Matsum. & Kudô
  • Comanthosphace stellipila var. japonica (Miq.) Matsum. & Kudô
  • Comanthosphace stellipila var. tosaensis (Makino ex Koidz.) Makino
  • Comanthosphace sublanceolata (Miq.) S.Moore ex Briq.
  • Comanthosphace sublanceolata f. barbinervis Makino
  • Comanthosphace tajimensis Makino ex H.Hara
  • Comanthosphace tosaensis Makino ex Koidz.
  • Elsholtzia barbinervis Miq.
  • Elsholtzia japonica Miq.
  • Elsholtzia sublanceolata Miq.
  • Leucosceptrum japonicum (Miq.) Kitam. & Murata
  • Leucosceptrum japonicum f. barbinerve (Miq.) Kitam. & Murata
  • Leucosceptrum stellipilum var. radicans (Honda) T.Yamaz. & Murata
  • Leucosceptrum stellipilum var. tosaense (Makino ex Koidz.) Kitam. & Murata
  • Pogostemon barbinervis (Miq.) Benth.
  • Pogostemon japonicus (Miq.) Benth.
  • Pogostemon sublanceolatus (Miq.) Benth.

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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