Leea macrophyllaRoxb. ex Hornem.

WFO wfo-1000051739 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Leea macrophylla, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. a Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-09-18 / obs. 158199742
Leea macrophylla, photographed by S.MORE
fig. b S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 97464506
Leea macrophylla, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 118556147
Leea macrophylla, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 128862689
Leea macrophylla, photographed by S.MORE
fig. e S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 51283677
Leea macrophylla, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. f Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 127648178
Leea macrophylla, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. g Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 127128271
Leea macrophylla, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. h Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 126942703

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Leea macrophylla is native: China South-Central, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand China South-CentralAssamBangladeshCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaLaosMyanmarNepalThailand Andaman Is.
Native distribution of Leea macrophylla, 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
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Thailand THA
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE

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 16 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.

  • Aquilicia samudraca Jones
  • Leea angustifolia M.A.Lawson
  • Leea aspera Wall. ex G.Don
  • Leea cinerea M.A.Lawson
  • Leea coriacea M.A.Lawson
  • Leea diffusa M.A.Lawson
  • Leea integrifolia Roxb.
  • Leea latifolia Wall.
  • Leea macrophylla Roxb.
  • Leea macrophylla var. oxyphylla Kurz
  • Leea pallida Craib
  • Leea parallela Wall.
  • Leea parallela var. angustifolia (M.A.Lawson) Kurz
  • Leea parallela var. puberula Craib
  • Leea robusta Roxb.
  • Leea venkobarowii Gamble

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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