Elaeocarpus angustifoliusBlume

quandong

WFO wfo-0000664024 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 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.

Elaeocarpus angustifolius, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. a 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-20 / obs. 165134222
Elaeocarpus angustifolius, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. b 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165134155
Elaeocarpus angustifolius, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. c 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165134227
Elaeocarpus angustifolius, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. d 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165134259
Elaeocarpus angustifolius, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. e 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165134345
Elaeocarpus angustifolius, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. f 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165134366

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Native range 29 botanical countries

Regions where Elaeocarpus angustifolius is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Northern Territory, Queensland, New Caledonia, Santa Cruz Is., Vanuatu, Wallis-Futuna Is. China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanAssamBangladeshBismarck ArchipelagoBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNepalNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.SulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamWest HimalayaNorthern TerritoryQueenslandNew Caledonia VanuatuWallis-Futuna Is.
Native distribution of Elaeocarpus angustifolius, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
Bismarck Archipelago BIS
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
New Caledonia NWC PACIFIC
Santa Cruz Is. SCZ
Vanuatu VAN
Wallis-Futuna Is. WAL
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Northern Territory NTA AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD

Not drawn on the map: Santa Cruz Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is 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 156 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 14.1 °C 19.1 °C 20.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.3 °C 26.4 °C 29.1 °C
Annual rainfall 925 mm 1,199 mm 2,945 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 105 mm 146 mm 569 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 156 research-grade observations of Elaeocarpus angustifolius 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 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.

  • Aceratium ganitrum (Roxb. ex G.Don) Bosse
  • Ayparia crenata Raf.
  • Elaeocarpus baclayanensis Elmer
  • Elaeocarpus christophersenii A.C.Sm.
  • Elaeocarpus crenatus (Raf.) Merr.
  • Elaeocarpus cyanocarpus Maingay ex Mast.
  • Elaeocarpus dolichopetalus Merr.
  • Elaeocarpus fauroensis Hemsl.
  • Elaeocarpus ganitrus Roxb. ex G.Don
  • Elaeocarpus hebridarum R.Knuth
  • Elaeocarpus maior (Hochr.) R.Knuth
  • Elaeocarpus muellerianus Schltr.
  • Elaeocarpus novoguineensis Warb.
  • Elaeocarpus parkinsonii Warb.
  • Elaeocarpus polyschistus Schltr.
  • Elaeocarpus sphaericus (Gaertn.) Heer
  • Elaeocarpus sphaericus var. major Hochr.
  • Elaeocarpus subglobosus Merr.
  • Elaeocarpus wenzelii Merr.
  • Ganitrus sphaerica Gaertn.

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 ELSP2. 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.