Garcinia indica(Thouars) Choisy

garcinia

WFO wfo-0000694375 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Garcinia indica, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. a Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2008-12-06 / obs. 120740495
Garcinia indica, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 120740502
Garcinia indica, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 120740503

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
01053482
Filed as
Garcinia indica (Thouars) Choisy
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
T. B. McClelland 1925-06
Origin
PR
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Garcinia indica is native: India India
Native distribution of Garcinia indica, 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

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 9 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.

  • Brindonia celebica Thouars
  • Brindonia indica Thouars
  • Brindonia oxycarpa Thouars
  • Garcinia celebica (Thouars) Desr.
  • Garcinia purpurea (G.Don) Roxb.
  • Oxycarpus indica (Thouars) Poir.
  • Stalagmitis indica (Thouars) G.Don
  • Stalagmitis purpurea G.Don
  • Xanthochymus purpureus Lodd. ex G.Don

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.

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.