Griffitharia vestita(Wall. ex G.Don) Rushforth

WFO wfo-1000004221 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 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.

Griffitharia vestita, photographed by Ramnarayan K
fig. a Ramnarayan K, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-07 / obs. 149909798
Griffitharia vestita, photographed by Ramnarayan K
fig. b Ramnarayan K, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149909776
Griffitharia vestita, photographed by Ramnarayan K
fig. c Ramnarayan K, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149909749
Griffitharia vestita, photographed by Ramnarayan K
fig. d Ramnarayan K, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149909826
Griffitharia vestita, photographed by Ramnarayan K
fig. e Ramnarayan K, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149909863

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Griffitharia vestita is native: Assam, East Himalaya, Nepal, West Himalaya AssamEast HimalayaNepalWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Griffitharia vestita, 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
East Himalaya EHM
Nepal NEP
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 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.

  • Aria cuspidata (Spach) M.Roem.
  • Aria vestita (Wall. ex G.Don) M.Roem.
  • Crataegus cuspidata Spach
  • Crataegus vestita (Wall. ex G.Don) Chalon
  • Micromeles vestita (Wall. ex G.Don) Mezhenskyj
  • Pyrus crenata Lindl.
  • Pyrus saturnus M.F.Fay & Christenh.
  • Pyrus vestita Wall. ex G.Don
  • Pyrus vestita var. khasiana Hook.f.
  • Sorbus crenata K.Koch
  • Sorbus cuspidata (Spach) Hedl.
  • Sorbus nepalensis Hedl.
  • Sorbus nepalensis Dippel
  • Sorbus vestita (Wall. ex G.Don) Lodd.
  • Sorbus vestita var. khasiana (Hook.f.) Karthik. & V.S.Kumar

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.