Embelia drupacea(Dennst.) M.R.Almeida & S.M.Almeida

WFO wfo-0000666833 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / 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.

Embelia drupacea, photographed by S.MORE
fig. a S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / 2020-03-06 / obs. 63912197
Embelia drupacea, photographed by Ajit Ampalakkad
fig. b Ajit Ampalakkad, CC0 1.0 / obs. 48256742
Embelia drupacea, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 115722849
Embelia drupacea, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 115298807
Embelia drupacea, photographed by S.MORE
fig. e S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 63449479
Embelia drupacea, photographed by Ajit Ampalakkad
fig. f Ajit Ampalakkad, CC0 1.0 / obs. 48256834
Embelia drupacea, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. g Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 115744295
Embelia drupacea, photographed by Ajit Ampalakkad
fig. h Ajit Ampalakkad, CC0 1.0 / obs. 48256822

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Embelia drupacea is native: India, Jawa, Sri Lanka, Sumatera IndiaJawaSri LankaSumatera
Native distribution of Embelia drupacea, 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
India IND ASIA-TROPICAL
Jawa JAW
Sri Lanka SRL
Sumatera SUM

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 6 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.

  • Embelia aurantiaca (Wall.) Wadhwa
  • Embelia tetrandra J.Graham
  • Embelia viridiflora C.B.Clarke
  • Myrsine aurantiaca Wall.
  • Pothos drupaceus Dennst.
  • Samara aurantiaca Arn.

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.