Horsfieldia irya(Gaertn.) Warb.

pianggu

WFO wfo-0000724861 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

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.

Horsfieldia irya, photographed by Cheongweei Gan
fig. a Cheongweei Gan, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-01 / obs. 124453840
Horsfieldia irya, photographed by Cheongweei Gan
fig. b Cheongweei Gan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 124453819
Horsfieldia irya, photographed by Cheongweei Gan
fig. c Cheongweei Gan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 124453859

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
05014335
Filed as
Horsfieldia irya (Gaertn.) Warb.
Det. by
J. J. Saimon 2010-01-01
Collected
J. J. Saimon 2007-06-14
Origin
FM
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 17 botanical countries

Regions where Horsfieldia irya is native: Andaman Is., Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Caroline Is. BorneoCambodiaJawaMalayaMalukuMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.Sri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnam Andaman Is.Nicobar Is.Caroline Is.
Native distribution of Horsfieldia irya, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
Jawa JAW
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
Caroline Is. CRL 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.

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.

  • Horsfieldia acuminata Merr.
  • Horsfieldia amklaal Kaneh.
  • Horsfieldia congestiflora A.C.Sm.
  • Horsfieldia labillardierei Warb.
  • Horsfieldia lemanniana (A.DC.) Warb.
  • Horsfieldia nunu Kaneh.
  • Horsfieldia subglobosa Warb.
  • Myristica globularia var. subglobosa (Miq.) Miq.
  • Myristica irya Gaertn.
  • Myristica irya var. longifolia King
  • Myristica irya var. wallichii King
  • Myristica javanica Blume
  • Myristica labillardierei Boerl.
  • Myristica lemanniana A.DC.
  • Myristica micrantha Wall.
  • Myristica sphaerocarpa Wall.
  • Myristica subglobosa Miq.
  • Myristica vrieseana Miq.
  • Palala irya (Gaertn.) Kuntze
  • Palala lemanniana (A.DC.) Kuntze
  • Palala micrantha Kuntze
  • Palala subglobosa (Miq.) Kuntze

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol HOIR2. public domain. 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.