Murdannia edulis(Stokes) Faden

WFO wfo-0000473445 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.

Murdannia edulis, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. a Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2015-06-24 / obs. 60698261
Murdannia edulis, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. b Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60698255
Murdannia edulis, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. c Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60698256
Murdannia edulis, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60698262

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Murdannia edulis is native: China Southeast, Hainan, Taiwan, Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China SoutheastHainanTaiwanAssamBangladeshCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MyanmarNepalNew GuineaPhilippinesThailandVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Murdannia edulis, 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
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China Southeast CHS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Hainan CHH
Taiwan TAI

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 22 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.

  • Aneilema formosanum N.E.Br.
  • Aneilema loureiroi Hance
  • Aneilema loureiroi var. horsfieldii C.B.Clarke
  • Aneilema multiscaposum Lauterb.
  • Aneilema platyphyllum Merr.
  • Aneilema scapiflorum (Roxb.) Wight
  • Aneilema scapiflorum (Roxb.) Kostel.
  • Aneilema scapiflorum var. latifolium N.E.Br.
  • Aneilema scapifolium var. latifolium N.E.Br.
  • Aneilema serotinum Don ex C.B.Clarke
  • Aneilema tuberosum Buch.-Ham.
  • Commelina edulis Stokes
  • Commelina scapiflora Roxb.
  • Commelina spicata Steud.
  • Commelina tuberosa Billb. ex Beurl.
  • Murdannia formosana (N.E.Br.) K.S.Hsu
  • Murdannia loureiroi (Hance) R.S.Rao & Kammathy
  • Murdannia multiscaposa (Lauterb.) G.Brückn.
  • Murdannia scapiflora (Roxb.) Royle
  • Murdannia tuberosa Royle ex C.B.Clarke
  • Phaeneilema multiscaposum (Lauterb.) G.Brückn.
  • Phaeneilema scapiflorum (Roxb.) G.Brückn.

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.