Pittosporum ferrugineumW.T.Aiton

Rusty Pittosporum

WFO wfo-0000481096 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 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.

Pittosporum ferrugineum, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. a Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-07-10 / obs. 142464952
Pittosporum ferrugineum, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. b Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 142464983
Pittosporum ferrugineum, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. c Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 142465001
Pittosporum ferrugineum, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. d Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 142465024
Pittosporum ferrugineum, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. e Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 142465050
Pittosporum ferrugineum, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. f Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 142465081

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Pittosporum ferrugineum is native: Bismarck Archipelago, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Sulawesi, Northern Territory, Queensland, Caroline Is. Bismarck ArchipelagoJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalukuNew GuineaPhilippinesSulawesiNorthern TerritoryQueensland Caroline Is.
Native distribution of Pittosporum ferrugineum, 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
Bismarck Archipelago BIS ASIA-TROPICAL
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Maluku MOL
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Sulawesi SUL
Northern Territory NTA AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD
Caroline Is. CRL PACIFIC

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.

  • Itea javanica Blume
  • Pittosporum ferrugineum var. javanicum Boerl.
  • Pittosporum kusaiense Kaneh.
  • Pittosporum ovatifolium F.Muell.
  • Pittosporum ponapense Kaneh.
  • Pittosporum versteeghii Merr. & L.M.Perry

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.