Enkianthus deflexus(Griff.) C.K.Schneid.

WFO wfo-0000668068 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Enkianthus deflexus, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. a Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2017-05-03 / obs. 65717095
Enkianthus deflexus, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. b Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65717089
Enkianthus deflexus, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. c Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65717083
Enkianthus deflexus, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65717087
Enkianthus deflexus, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. e Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61309740
Enkianthus deflexus, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. f Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61309685
Enkianthus deflexus, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. g Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61309702
Enkianthus deflexus, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. h Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61309720

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Enkianthus deflexus is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Tibet, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal China South-CentralChina SoutheastTibetEast HimalayaMyanmarNepal
Native distribution of Enkianthus deflexus, 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
Tibet CHT
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP

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 7 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.

  • Enkianthus deflexus var. variegatus (Forrest) Forrest
  • Enkianthus himalaicus Hook.f. & Thomson
  • Enkianthus indicus Debta & H.J.Chowdhery
  • Enkianthus sulcatus Craib
  • Enkianthus variegatus Forrest
  • Meisteria deflexa (Griff.) Nakai
  • Rhodora deflexa Griff.

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.