Cornus hongkongensis

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.

Cornus hongkongensis, photographed by Aaron Liston — fig. a Aaron Liston, CC BY 4.0 / 2017-07-31 / obs. 9553002

Cornus hongkongensis, photographed by Agnes Trekker — fig. b Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 125814352

Cornus hongkongensis, photographed by Yj — fig. g Yj, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122630324

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Native distribution of Cornus hongkongensis, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
China South-Central	CHC	ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast	CHS
Laos	LAO	ASIA-TROPICAL
Vietnam	VIE

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 33 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.

Benthamia hongkongensis (Hemsl.) Nakai
Benthamia japonica var. sinensis Benth.
Benthamidia ferruginea H.Hara
Benthamidia hongkongensis (Hemsl.) H.Hara
Benthamidia hongkongensis var. gigantea (Hand.-Mazz.) H.Hara
Cornus capitata subsp. brevipedunculata (W.P.Fang & Y.T.Hsieh) Q.Y.Xiang
Cornus ferruginea Y.C.Wu
Cornus gigantea (Hand.-Mazz.) Tardieu
Cornus hongkongensis var. gigantea Hand.-Mazz.
Cornus hongkongensis var. hongkongensis
Cornus hongkongensis var. jinyunensis (W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu) Q.Y.Xiang
Cornus tonkinensis (W.P.Fang) Tardieu
Cynoxylon ferrugineum (H.Hara) Pojark.
Cynoxylon hongkongense (Hemsl.) Nakai
Cynoxylon melanotrichum Pojark.
Dendrobenthamia brevipedunculata W.P.Fang & Hsieh
Dendrobenthamia elegans W.P.Fang & Hsieh
Dendrobenthamia elegans var. rotundifolia (W.P.Fang & Y.T.Hsieh) W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu
Dendrobenthamia ferruginea (Y.C.Wu) W.P.Fang
Dendrobenthamia ferruginea var. jiangxiensis W.P.Fang & Hsieh
Dendrobenthamia ferruginea var. jinyunensis (W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu) W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu
Dendrobenthamia gigantea (Hand.-Mazz.) W.P.Fang
Dendrobenthamia gigantea var. caudata W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu
Dendrobenthamia hongkongensis (Hemsl.) Hutch.

and 9 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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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