Olax scandensRoxb.

WFO wfo-0000390238 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 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.

Olax scandens, photographed by Ravuri Krishna Chaitanya
fig. a Ravuri Krishna Chaitanya, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-22 / obs. 130697010
Olax scandens, photographed by Ravuri Krishna Chaitanya
fig. b Ravuri Krishna Chaitanya, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130697039
Olax scandens, photographed by Ravuri Krishna Chaitanya
fig. c Ravuri Krishna Chaitanya, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130697065

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Olax scandens is native: Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam BangladeshCambodiaIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMyanmarSri LankaThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Olax scandens, 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
Cambodia CBD
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Sri Lanka SRL
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 6 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.

  • Drebbelia subarborescens Zoll.
  • Loranthus securidacoides Warb.
  • Olax bador Buch.-Ham.
  • Olax imbricata var. cambodiana Pierre
  • Olax obtusa Blume
  • Roxburghia baccata J.Koenig ex Roxb.

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.

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