Embelia tsjeriam-cottam(Roem. & Schult.) A.DC.

WFO wfo-0000667015 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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 tsjeriam-cottam, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. a Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-10-18 / obs. 102503760
Embelia tsjeriam-cottam, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. b Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 41469800
Embelia tsjeriam-cottam, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 125130471
Embelia tsjeriam-cottam, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 122145806
Embelia tsjeriam-cottam, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 122046094
Embelia tsjeriam-cottam, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. f Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 41469615
Embelia tsjeriam-cottam, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. g Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 125130482
Embelia tsjeriam-cottam, photographed by S.MORE
fig. h S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 57504817

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Embelia tsjeriam-cottam is native: China South-Central, Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China South-CentralAssamBangladeshCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaLaosMyanmarNepalPakistanSri LankaThailandVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Embelia tsjeriam-cottam, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
Sri Lanka SRL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE

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 24 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.

  • Ardisia basaal Roem. & Schult.
  • Ardisia tsjeriam-cottam Roem. & Schult.
  • Dauceria acuta Dennst.
  • Dauceria obtusa Dennst.
  • Embelia acuta (Dennst.) Alston
  • Embelia acutipetala S.M.Almeida & M.R.Almeida
  • Embelia basaal (Roem. & Schult.) A.DC.
  • Embelia basaal subsp. ferruginea (Wall. ex DC.) Panigrahi & Murti
  • Embelia ferruginea Wall. ex A.DC.
  • Embelia obtusa Alston
  • Embelia picta A.DC.
  • Embelia robusta Roxb.
  • Embelia robusta var. ferruginea (Wall. ex A.DC.) C.B.Clarke
  • Embelia sootepensis var. thorelii Pit.
  • Embelia tsjeriam-cottam var. ferruginea (Wall. ex A.DC.) Harid. & R.R.Rao
  • Embelia tsjeriamcottam var. ferruginea (C.B.Clarke) K.Larsen & C.M.Hu
  • Embelia villosa A.DC.
  • Embelia villosa Wall.
  • Pattara acuta Raf.
  • Pattara basal Raf.
  • Ribesiodes robusta (Roxb.) Kuntze
  • Ribesiodes villosa (Wall.) Kuntze
  • Samara picta Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.
  • Samara robusta 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.