Litsea ligustrina(Nees) Fern.-Vill.

WFO wfo-0001070390 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 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.

Litsea ligustrina, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. a Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2015-05-27 / obs. 52041990
Litsea ligustrina, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. b Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 52042013
Litsea ligustrina, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. c Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 52042003
Litsea ligustrina, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 52042021

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Litsea ligustrina is native: Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka BangladeshIndiaMyanmarPakistanSri Lanka
Native distribution of Litsea ligustrina, 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
Bangladesh BAN ASIA-TROPICAL
India IND
Myanmar MYA
Pakistan PAK
Sri Lanka SRL

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 27 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.

  • Actinodaphne quinqueflora (Dennst.) M.R.Almeida & S.M.Almeida
  • Darwinia quinqueflora Dennst.
  • Litsea cauliflora Trimen
  • Litsea caulostachys Kosterm.
  • Litsea chinensis B.Heyne ex Nees
  • Litsea deccanensis Gamble
  • Litsea hookeriana (Meisn.) Hook.f.
  • Litsea longifolia (Nees) Trimen
  • Litsea quinqueflora Suresh
  • Litsea sebifera var. tomentosa (Nees) Hook.f.
  • Litsea thwaitesii N.P.Balakr.
  • Litsea tomentosa (Nees) B.Heyne ex Hook.f.
  • Litsea undulata Hook.f.
  • Malapoenna hookeriana (Meisn.) Kuntze
  • Malapoenna ligustrina (Nees) Kuntze
  • Malapoenna longifolia Kuntze
  • Sebifera balongai Blanco
  • Sebifera balongy Blanco
  • Tetranthera cauliflora Moon
  • Tetranthera celastroides Miq. ex Meisn.
  • Tetranthera hookeriana Meisn.
  • Tetranthera ligustrina Nees
  • Tetranthera ligustrina var. celastroides Miq. ex Meisn.
  • Tetranthera longifolia Nees

and 3 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.