Prunus ceylanica(Wight) Miq.

WFO wfo-0001018017 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, 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.

Prunus ceylanica, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. a T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-30 / obs. 178284697
Prunus ceylanica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. b Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50335265
Prunus ceylanica, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 116386268
Prunus ceylanica, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 194248658
Prunus ceylanica, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. e T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178284710
Prunus ceylanica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. f Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50335277
Prunus ceylanica, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. g Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 116386270
Prunus ceylanica, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. h Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 194248666

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Prunus ceylanica is native: Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya AssamBangladeshEast HimalayaIndiaLaosMyanmarNepalSri LankaThailandVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Prunus ceylanica, 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
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Sri Lanka SRL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM

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 19 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.

  • Polydontia ceylanica Wight
  • Prunus ceylanica var. parvifolia (Thwaites) Tirveng.
  • Pygeum acuminatum Colebr.
  • Pygeum ceylanicum (Wight) Dalzell & A.Gibson
  • Pygeum cochinchinense J.E.Vidal
  • Pygeum denudatum Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.
  • Pygeum gardneri Hook.f.
  • Pygeum glaberrimum Hook.f.
  • Pygeum glaberrimum Hook.f.
  • Pygeum parviflorum Craib
  • Pygeum parvifolium (Hook.f.) Koehne
  • Pygeum parvifolium Gardner ex Thwaites
  • Pygeum plagiocarpum Koehne
  • Pygeum sisparense Gamble
  • Pygeum tenuinerve Koehne
  • Pygeum wightianum Blume
  • Pygeum wightianum var. parvifolium Thwaites ex Hook.f.
  • Pygeum wightianum var. parvifolium Thwaites
  • Pygeum zeylanicum Gaertn.

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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