Dendropanax proteus(Champ. ex Benth.) Benth.

WFO wfo-0000941687 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Dendropanax proteus, photographed by Yj
fig. a Yj, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-01-31 / obs. 136641734
Dendropanax proteus, photographed by Yj
fig. b Yj, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136641751
Dendropanax proteus, photographed by Yj
fig. c Yj, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136641765
Dendropanax proteus, photographed by Yj
fig. d Yj, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136641778
Dendropanax proteus, photographed by Yj
fig. e Yj, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136641794

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Dendropanax proteus is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainan
Native distribution of Dendropanax proteus, 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 South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH

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 15 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.

  • Dendropanax acuminatissimus Merr.
  • Dendropanax angustilobus (Hu) Merr.
  • Dendropanax brevistylus Y.Ling
  • Dendropanax gracilis C.J.Tseng & G.Hoo
  • Dendropanax parvifloroides var. chartaceus K.M.Feng & Y.R.Li
  • Dendropanax parviflorus (Champ. ex Benth.) Benth.
  • Gilibertia acuminatissima (Merr.) Hu
  • Gilibertia angustiloba Hu
  • Gilibertia parviflora (Champ. ex Benth.) Harms
  • Gilibertia protea (Champ. ex Benth.) Harms
  • Hedera parviflora Champ. ex Benth.
  • Hedera protea Champ. ex Benth.
  • Mesopanax proteus (Champ. ex Benth.) R.Vig.
  • Textoria parviflora (Champ. ex Benth.) Nakai
  • Textoria protea (Champ. ex Benth.) Nakai

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.