Embelia ribesBurm.f.

WFO wfo-0000666970 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Embelia ribes, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. a Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2015-04-19 / obs. 116057781
Embelia ribes, photographed by Toby Y
fig. b Toby Y, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176861862
Embelia ribes, photographed by Toby Y
fig. c Toby Y, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172132822
Embelia ribes, photographed by Toby Y
fig. d Toby Y, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113263928
Embelia ribes, photographed by Toby Y
fig. e Toby Y, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112597392
Embelia ribes, photographed by Samuel Lee
fig. f Samuel Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161660466
Embelia ribes, photographed by Yj
fig. g Yj, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137347055
Embelia ribes, photographed by Yj
fig. h Yj, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113857583

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Embelia ribes is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Tibet, Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTibetAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosMalayaMyanmarPhilippinesSri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnam Nicobar Is.
Native distribution of Embelia ribes, 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
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Tibet CHT

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 69 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 11.0 °C 12.7 °C 24.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.6 °C 29.0 °C 30.1 °C
Annual rainfall 1,980 mm 2,385 mm 2,707 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 85 mm 104 mm 517 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 69 research-grade observations of Embelia ribes 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 19 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.

  • Antidesma grossularia Raeusch.
  • Antidesma ribes (Burm.f.) Raeusch.
  • Ardisia tenuiflora Blume
  • Embelia burmanni Retz.
  • Embelia dentata Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.
  • Embelia garciniaefolia Miq.
  • Embelia garciniifolia (Wall. ex A.DC.) Miq.
  • Embelia glandulifera Wight
  • Embelia indica J.F.Gmel.
  • Embelia paniculata Moon
  • Embelia ribes subsp. pachyphylla (C.Y.Wu & C.Chen) Pipoly & C.Chen
  • Embelia ribes subsp. ribes
  • Embelia ribes var. garciniifolia Wall. ex A.DC.
  • Embelia ribes var. sillettensis A.DC.
  • Embelia sumatrana Miq.
  • Embelia tenuis Mez
  • Ribesiodes garciniifolia (Wall. ex A.DC.) Kuntze
  • Ribesiodes ribes (Burm.f.) Kuntze
  • Samara ribes (Burm.f.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Kurz

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.