Gouania microcarpaDC.

WFO wfo-0000708331 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.

Gouania microcarpa, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. a Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2017-02-23 / obs. 141418385
Gouania microcarpa, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 161841930
Gouania microcarpa, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 161841932
Gouania microcarpa, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 141418367
Gouania microcarpa, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. e Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 42552183
Gouania microcarpa, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. f Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 42552218
Gouania microcarpa, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. g Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56898758
Gouania microcarpa, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. h Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56898761

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Gouania microcarpa is native: Assam, Bismarck Archipelago, India, Myanmar, New Guinea, Sri Lanka, West Himalaya AssamBismarck ArchipelagoIndiaMyanmarNew GuineaSri LankaWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Gouania microcarpa, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bismarck Archipelago BIS
India IND
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Sri Lanka SRL
West Himalaya WHM

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 4 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.

  • Gouania brandisi Hassk.
  • Gouania domingensis Blanco
  • Gouania integrifolia Kurz
  • Gouania leptostachya Fern.-Vill.

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.