Pometia pinnataJ.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

WFO wfo-0000471438 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Pometia pinnata, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. a 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-20 / obs. 165135083
Pometia pinnata, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. b 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164922964
Pometia pinnata, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. c Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 124913077
Pometia pinnata, photographed by 葉子
fig. d 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 129828898
Pometia pinnata, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. e Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 56310623
Pometia pinnata, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. f Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 49221603
Pometia pinnata, photographed by Tatsutomo Chin
fig. g Tatsutomo Chin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 44481097
Pometia pinnata, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. h Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 41215452

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Native range 28 botanical countries

Regions where Pometia pinnata is native: China South-Central, Taiwan, Andaman Is., Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Fiji, Niue, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Tonga, Tuamotu, Vanuatu, Wallis-Futuna Is. China South-CentralTaiwanBismarck ArchipelagoBorneoJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.Sri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamFiji Andaman Is.Nicobar Is.NiueSamoaTongaTuamotuVanuatuWallis-Futuna Is.
Native distribution of Pometia pinnata, 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
Bismarck Archipelago BIS
Borneo BOR
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
Fiji FIJ PACIFIC
Niue NUE
Samoa SAM
Santa Cruz Is. SCZ
Tonga TON
Tuamotu TUA
Vanuatu VAN
Wallis-Futuna Is. WAL
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
Taiwan TAI

Not drawn on the map: Santa Cruz Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 305 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 15.8 °C 20.4 °C 24.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.2 °C 28.6 °C 30.9 °C
Annual rainfall 2,239 mm 3,356 mm 4,723 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 172 mm 537 mm 800 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 305 research-grade observations of Pometia pinnata that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 25 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.

  • Aphania neoebudica Guillaumin
  • Aporetica pinnata (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) DC.
  • Cnesmocarpus excelsus Zipp. ex Blume
  • Diplocardia excelsa Zipp. ex Blume
  • Dubanus acuminatus Kuntze
  • Eccremanthus eximius Thwaites
  • Euphoria pometia Poir.
  • Irina alnifolia Blume
  • Irina diplocardia Blume
  • Irina glabra Blume
  • Irina tomentosa Blume
  • Nephelium acuminatum Hook.f.
  • Nephelium diplocardia (Blume) F.Muell.
  • Nephelium eximium Thwaites
  • Nephelium pinnatum (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Cambess.
  • Pometia acuminata (Hook.f.) Radlk.
  • Pometia alnifolia (Blume) King
  • Pometia annamica Gagnep.
  • Pometia coriacea Radlk.
  • Pometia eximia Bedd.
  • Pometia glabra (Blume) Teijsm. & Binn.
  • Pometia gracilis King
  • Pometia lecomtei Gagnep.
  • Pometia macrocarpa Kurz

and 1 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.