Fagraea berteroanaA.Gray ex Benth.

Cape Jittachelilai

WFO wfo-0000685520 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.

Fagraea berteroana, photographed by Lennart Hudel
fig. a Lennart Hudel, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-03-03 / obs. 33485807
Fagraea berteroana, photographed by coenobita
fig. b coenobita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29829348
Fagraea berteroana, photographed by Colin Meurk
fig. c Colin Meurk, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 2264202
Fagraea berteroana, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. d Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190938446
Fagraea berteroana, photographed by coenobita
fig. e coenobita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29829352
Fagraea berteroana, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. f Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190938354
Fagraea berteroana, photographed by Peter de Lange
fig. g Peter de Lange, CC0 1.0 / obs. 1956183
Fagraea berteroana, photographed by Dominik Maximilián Ramík
fig. h Dominik Maximilián Ramík, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196223970

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Fagraea berteroana is native: Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, Solomon Is., Queensland, Caroline Is., Cook Is., Fiji, Gilbert Is., Marianas, Marquesas, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Samoa, Society Is., Tonga, Tubuai Is., Vanuatu, Wallis-Futuna Is. Bismarck ArchipelagoNew GuineaSolomon Is.QueenslandFijiNew Caledonia Caroline Is.Cook Is.MarianasMarquesasNauruNiueSamoaSociety Is.TongaTubuai Is.VanuatuWallis-Futuna Is.
Native distribution of Fagraea berteroana, 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
Caroline Is. CRL PACIFIC
Cook Is. COO
Fiji FIJ
Gilbert Is. GIL
Marianas MRN
Marquesas MRQ
Nauru NRU
New Caledonia NWC
Niue NUE
Samoa SAM
Society Is. SCI
Tonga TON
Tubuai Is. TUB
Vanuatu VAN
Wallis-Futuna Is. WAL
Bismarck Archipelago BIS ASIA-TROPICAL
New Guinea NWG
Solomon Is. SOL
Queensland QLD AUSTRALASIA

Not drawn on the map: Gilbert 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.

Also published as 28 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.

  • Carissa grandis Bert. ex A.DC.
  • Fagraea affinis S.Moore
  • Fagraea berteroana var. galilai (Gilg & Gilg-Ben.) Fosberg
  • Fagraea berteroana var. kusaiana (Hosok.) Fosberg
  • Fagraea berteroana var. ladronica Fosberg
  • Fagraea berteroana var. marquisensis Fosberg & Sachet
  • Fagraea berteroana var. pogas (Hosok.) Fosberg
  • Fagraea berteroana var. sair (Gilg & Gilg-Ben.) Fosberg
  • Fagraea calophylloides Gilg & Gilg-Ben.
  • Fagraea galilai Gilg & Gilg-Ben.
  • Fagraea grandis Pancher & Sebert
  • Fagraea ksid Gilg & Gilg-Ben.
  • Fagraea kusaiana Hosok.
  • Fagraea longituba M.L.Grant
  • Fagraea novae-guineae Cammerl.
  • Fagraea obovata var. papuana F.M.Bailey
  • Fagraea pachypoda Gilg & Gilg-Ben.
  • Fagraea peekelii Gilg & Gilg-Ben.
  • Fagraea pluvialis S.Moore
  • Fagraea pua Nadeaud
  • Fagraea rosenstromii C.T.White
  • Fagraea sair Gilg & Gilg-Ben.
  • Fagraea sair Hosok.
  • Fagraea salomonensis Gilg & Gilg-Ben.

and 4 more.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. 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.

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