Maesa indica(Roxb.) Sweet

WFO wfo-0001085578 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Maesa indica, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. a Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-03-07 / obs. 183248072
Maesa indica, photographed by S.MORE
fig. b S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 170099570
Maesa indica, photographed by Seema Merchant
fig. c Seema Merchant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120166261
Maesa indica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 42738237
Maesa indica, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 153059888
Maesa indica, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. f Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 176560886
Maesa indica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. g Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65982500
Maesa indica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. h Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56818957

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Maesa indica is native: China South-Central, Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China South-CentralAssamBangladeshCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaLaosMalayaMyanmarNepalPakistanPhilippinesSri LankaThailandVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Maesa indica, 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
Bangladesh BAN
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 46 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 4.8 °C 14.4 °C 17.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 21.7 °C 29.3 °C 34.4 °C
Annual rainfall 1,500 mm 3,618 mm 5,076 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 5 mm 92 mm 382 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 46 research-grade observations of Maesa indica that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 18 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.

  • Baeobotrys indica Roxb.
  • Baeobotrys latifolius Blume
  • Baeobotrys morsha Buch.-Ham. ex A.DC.
  • Baeobotrys nemoralis Roxb.
  • Bassovia silvatica Blanco
  • Ehretia spicata Bojer
  • Maesa coriacea Mez
  • Maesa elmeri Mez
  • Maesa elongata Mez
  • Maesa grossedentata Mez
  • Maesa indica var. coriacea A.DC.
  • Maesa indica var. obtusa A.DC.
  • Maesa indica var. perrottetiana (A.DC.) C.B.Clarke
  • Maesa indica var. wightiana A.DC.
  • Maesa laxa Mez
  • Maesa neocoriacea Bennet
  • Maesa perrottetiana A.DC.
  • Maesa ramosii Quisumb. & Merr.

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.