Osbeckia stellataBuch.-Ham. ex D.Don

WFO wfo-0001280627 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.

Osbeckia stellata, photographed by Aaron Liston
fig. a Aaron Liston, CC BY 4.0 / 2017-08-02 / obs. 9590693
Osbeckia stellata, photographed by Aaron Liston
fig. b Aaron Liston, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9590706
Osbeckia stellata, photographed by Aaron Liston
fig. c Aaron Liston, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9629226

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Osbeckia stellata is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Tibet, Assam, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China South-CentralChina SoutheastTibetAssamCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaLaosMyanmarNepalThailandVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Osbeckia stellata, 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
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Tibet CHT

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.

  • Ceramicalyx stellatus (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) Blume
  • Melastoma crinitum Roxb.
  • Melastoma mairei H.Lév.
  • Melastoma stellatum Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don
  • Osbeckia cinerea Cogn.
  • Osbeckia crinita Benth. ex Naudin
  • Osbeckia crinita var. yunnanensis Cogn.
  • Osbeckia darjeelingensis G.S.Giri & M.P.Nayar
  • Osbeckia garrettii Craib
  • Osbeckia hildebrandii Stapf
  • Osbeckia hispidissima Wight
  • Osbeckia mairei Craib
  • Osbeckia marginulata Wall.
  • Osbeckia paludosa Craib
  • Osbeckia paludusa Craib
  • Osbeckia pulchra E.T.Geddes
  • Osbeckia pulchra var. rubra Craib
  • Osbeckia racemosa Craib
  • Osbeckia rhopalotricha C.Y.Wu
  • Osbeckia robusta Craib
  • Osbeckia rostrata var. marginulata C.B.Clarke
  • Osbeckia septemnervia Buch.-Ham. ex Craib
  • Osbeckia sikkimensis Craib
  • Osbeckia speciosa Naudin

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.