Lepisanthes tetraphylla(Vahl) Radlk.

WFO wfo-0000446270 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Lepisanthes tetraphylla, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. a Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-04-03 / obs. 186196323
Lepisanthes tetraphylla, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. b T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177529784
Lepisanthes tetraphylla, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 132519256
Lepisanthes tetraphylla, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 135083351
Lepisanthes tetraphylla, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 132103245
Lepisanthes tetraphylla, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. f Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 186196330
Lepisanthes tetraphylla, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. g T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177529796
Lepisanthes tetraphylla, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. h Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 132519264

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
191725
Filed as
Lepisanthes tetraphylla (Vahl) Radlk.
Det. by
M. M. J. van Balgooy
Collected
W. de Jong 1993-05-21
Origin
ID
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 20 botanical countries

Regions where Lepisanthes tetraphylla is native: Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam AssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnam Andaman Is.Nicobar Is.
Native distribution of Lepisanthes tetraphylla, 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
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE

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 36 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.

  • Aglaia chartacea Kosterm.
  • Anomosanthes deficiens (Bedd.) Blume
  • Anomosanthes longifolia (Hiern) Pierre
  • Cupania canescens (Roxb.) Pers.
  • Erioglossum alliaceum Zipp. ex Span.
  • Hemigyrosa canescens (Roxb.) Blume
  • Hemigyrosa deficiens Bedd.
  • Hemigyrosa longifolia Hiern
  • Hemigyrosa trichocarpa Thwaites
  • Lepisanthes acutissima Radlk.
  • Lepisanthes angustifolia Blume
  • Lepisanthes assamica Radlk.
  • Lepisanthes blumeana Koord. & Valeton
  • Lepisanthes cambodiana Pierre
  • Lepisanthes cuneata Hiern
  • Lepisanthes deficiens Radlk.
  • Lepisanthes eriolepis Radlk.
  • Lepisanthes granulata Radlk.
  • Lepisanthes kunstleri King
  • Lepisanthes langbianensis Gagnep.
  • Lepisanthes listeri King ex Radlk.
  • Lepisanthes longifolia Radlk.
  • Lepisanthes macrocarpa Radlk.
  • Lepisanthes mekongensis Pierre

and 12 more.

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.