Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 14 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Bismarck Archipelago | BIS | ASIA-TROPICAL |
| Borneo | BOR | |
| Jawa | JAW | |
| Lesser Sunda Is. | LSI | |
| Maluku | MOL | |
| New Guinea | NWG | |
| Philippines | PHI | |
| Solomon Is. | SOL | |
| Sulawesi | SUL | |
| Sumatera | SUM | |
| Northern Territory | NTA | AUSTRALASIA |
| Queensland | QLD | |
| Taiwan | TAI | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| Vanuatu | VAN | PACIFIC |
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.
Where it actually grows measured, from 889 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 11.5 °C | 14.5 °C | 19.1 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 27.5 °C | 29.8 °C | 30.6 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 1,877 mm | 2,541 mm | 3,568 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 59 mm | 106 mm | 478 mm |
It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 889 research-grade observations of Glochidion philippicum that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 22 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.
- Actinodaphne sieboldiana Miq.
- Bradleia philippensis Willd.
- Bradleia philippica Cav.
- Coccoglochidion erythrococcus K.Schum.
- Diasperus compressicaulis (Kurz ex Teijsm. & Binn.) Kuntze
- Diasperus kurzianus (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze
- Diasperus philippinensis (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze
- Diasperus quercinus (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze
- Glochidion compressicaule Kurz ex Teijsm. & Binn.
- Glochidion ferdinandi var. mollis (Benth.) F.M.Bailey
- Glochidion ferdinandii var. molle (Benth.) F.M.Bailey
- Glochidion formosanum Hayata
- Glochidion philippinense Benth.
- Glochidion quercinum (Müll.Arg.) Boerl.
- Glochidion sieboldianum (Miq.) Koidz.
- Phyllanthus compressicaulis (Kurz ex Teijsm. & Binn.) Müll.Arg.
- Phyllanthus ferdinandi var. mollis Benth.
- Phyllanthus ferdinandii var. mollis Benth.
- Phyllanthus kurzianus Müll.Arg.
- Phyllanthus philippinensis Müll.Arg.
- Phyllanthus quercinus Müll.Arg.
- Zarcoa philippica (Cav.) Llanos
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- 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.