Margaritaria indica(Dalzell) Airy Shaw

WFO wfo-0000236321 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.

Margaritaria indica, photographed by 葉子
fig. a 葉子, CC0 1.0 / 2021-09-17 / obs. 173672928
Margaritaria indica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. b Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66227650
Margaritaria indica, photographed by 葉子
fig. c 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173672909
Margaritaria indica, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. d 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163788878
Margaritaria indica, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. e 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163788877
Margaritaria indica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. f Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102142781
Margaritaria indica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. g Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102142760
Margaritaria indica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. h Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66227660

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
04082503
Filed as
Margaritaria indica (Dalzell) Airy Shaw
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
A. C. Church 1995-10-31
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 18 botanical countries

Regions where Margaritaria indica is native: China Southeast, Taiwan, Andaman Is., Bangladesh, Borneo, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Queensland China SoutheastTaiwanBangladeshBorneoIndiaJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSri LankaSumateraThailandVietnamQueensland Andaman Is.
Native distribution of Margaritaria 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
India IND
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China Southeast CHS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Taiwan TAI
Queensland QLD AUSTRALASIA

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 13 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.

  • Bridelia berryana Wall.
  • Calococcus sundaicus Kurz ex Teijsm. & Binn.
  • Cicca arborea C.Wright ex Griseb.
  • Diasperus berryanus Kuntze
  • Diasperus indicus (Dalzell) Kuntze
  • Diasperus stocksii (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze
  • Diasperus sundaicus (Kurz ex Teijsm. & Binn.) Kuntze
  • Glochidion longipedicellatum Yamam.
  • Phyllanthus indicus (Dalzell) Müll.Arg.
  • Phyllanthus indicus f. vestitus J.J.Sm.
  • Phyllanthus stocksii Müll.Arg.
  • Phyllanthus sundaicus (Kurz ex Teijsm. & Binn.) Müll.Arg.
  • Prosorus indicus Dalzell

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.