Glochidion obscurum(Roxb. ex Willd.) Blume

WFO wfo-0000973449 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 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.

Glochidion obscurum, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. a Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-05-06 / obs. 126830190
Glochidion obscurum, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. b Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 116228319
Glochidion obscurum, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. c Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 116138381
Glochidion obscurum, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. d Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 116128626

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K001081246
Filed as
Glochidion obscurum (Roxb. ex Willd.) Blume
Det. by
Smith, J.J.
Collected
Amdjah 1912-10-01
Origin
not recorded
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 11 botanical countries

Regions where Glochidion obscurum is native: Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam BorneoCambodiaJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Glochidion obscurum, 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
Borneo BOR ASIA-TROPICAL
Cambodia CBD
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE

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 15 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.

  • Bradleia glaucophylla Hassk.
  • Bradleia kipareh Steud.
  • Bradleia pinnata Roxb.
  • Diasperus dasyanthus (Kurz ex Teijsm. & Binn.) Kuntze
  • Diasperus kipareh (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze
  • Diasperus obscurus (Roxb. ex Willd.) Kuntze
  • Glochidion blumeanum Müll.Arg.
  • Glochidion dasyanthum Kurz ex Teijsm. & Binn.
  • Glochidion glaucum Blume
  • Glochidion obscurum var. macrocalyx J.J.Sm.
  • Glochidion pinnatum (Roxb.) Voigt
  • Glochidion roxburghianum Müll.Arg.
  • Phyllanthus dasyanthus (Kurz ex Teijsm. & Binn.) Müll.Arg.
  • Phyllanthus kipareh Müll.Arg.
  • Phyllanthus obscurus Roxb. ex Willd.

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.

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