Corymborkis veratrifolia(Reinw.) Blume

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WFO wfo-0000925763 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Corymborkis veratrifolia, photographed by coenobita
fig. a coenobita, CC BY 4.0 / 2017-06-10 / obs. 16328107

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000942851
Filed as
Corymborkis veratrifolia (Reinw.) Blume
Det. by
Rasmussen, F.N.
Collected
Schlechter, F.R.R. 1909-11-11
Origin
ID
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 39 botanical countries

Regions where Corymborkis veratrifolia is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Nansei-shoto, Ogasawara-shoto, Taiwan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Christmas I., East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Queensland, Caroline Is., Fiji, Marianas, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Society Is., Tonga, Vanuatu, Wallis-Futuna Is. China South-CentralChina SoutheastTaiwanAssamBangladeshBismarck ArchipelagoBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.Sri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamQueenslandFiji Nansei-shotoAndaman Is.Christmas I.Nicobar Is.Caroline Is.MarianasSamoaSociety Is.TongaVanuatuWallis-Futuna Is.
Native distribution of Corymborkis veratrifolia, 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
Bismarck Archipelago BIS
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
Christmas I. XMS
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
Caroline Is. CRL PACIFIC
Fiji FIJ
Marianas MRN
Samoa SAM
Santa Cruz Is. SCZ
Society Is. SCI
Tonga TON
Vanuatu VAN
Wallis-Futuna Is. WAL
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Nansei-shoto NNS
Ogasawara-shoto OGA
Taiwan TAI
Queensland QLD AUSTRALASIA

Not drawn on the map: Ogasawara-shoto, Santa Cruz Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for these regions, so they are listed rather than guessed at.

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 53 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 12.3 °C 18.4 °C 23.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 25.7 °C 28.1 °C 31.8 °C
Annual rainfall 1,388 mm 2,706 mm 4,411 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 57 mm 274 mm 801 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 53 research-grade observations of Corymborkis veratrifolia 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 39 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.

  • Arundina tahitensis Nadeaud
  • Chloidia confusa Ames
  • Corymbis angusta Ridl.
  • Corymbis angustifolia Miq.
  • Corymbis batjanica J.J.Sm.
  • Corymbis brevistylis Hook.f.
  • Corymbis confusa (Ames) Schltr.
  • Corymbis disticha (Breda) Lindl.
  • Corymbis exaltata Schltr.
  • Corymbis lauterbachii Schltr.
  • Corymbis ledermannii Schltr.
  • Corymbis longiflora Hook.f.
  • Corymbis minor Schltr.
  • Corymbis rhytidocarpa Hook.f.
  • Corymbis sakisimensis (Fukuy.) Masam.
  • Corymbis subdensa Schltr.
  • Corymbis trukensis Tuyama
  • Corymbis veratrifolia (Reinw.) Rchb.f.
  • Corymbis veratrifolia Rchb.f.
  • Corymborkis angusta (Ridl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
  • Corymborkis angustifolia (Miq.) Kuntze
  • Corymborkis angustissima J.J.Sm.
  • Corymborkis assamica Blume
  • Corymborkis batjanica (J.J.Sm.) J.J.Sm.

and 15 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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. 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.