Psychotria asiaticaL.

WFO wfo-0000284957 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Psychotria asiatica, photographed by 雲一百香果
fig. a 雲一百香果, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 203431620
Psychotria asiatica, photographed by 葉子
fig. b 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190245657
Psychotria asiatica, photographed by 四角銅鑼
fig. c 四角銅鑼, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178516628
Psychotria asiatica, photographed by chiuluan
fig. d chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178398487
Psychotria asiatica, photographed by 四角銅鑼
fig. e 四角銅鑼, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177919984
Psychotria asiatica, photographed by 四角銅鑼
fig. f 四角銅鑼, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177919785
Psychotria asiatica, photographed by 四角銅鑼
fig. g 四角銅鑼, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177919771
Psychotria asiatica, photographed by 四角銅鑼
fig. h 四角銅鑼, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177919754

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Psychotria asiatica is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Japan, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Cambodia, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanJapanTaiwanCambodiaLaosMalayaMyanmarThailandVietnam Nansei-shoto
Native distribution of Psychotria asiatica, 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
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Japan JAP
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI
Cambodia CBD ASIA-TROPICAL
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
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.

Flowering 100 in flower of 398 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Psychotria asiatica observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 100 of 398 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,881 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 10.4 °C 12.5 °C 15.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.2 °C 29.5 °C 30.9 °C
Annual rainfall 1,984 mm 2,857 mm 4,560 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 86 mm 202 mm 809 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 1,881 research-grade observations of Psychotria asiatica 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. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 12 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.

  • Antherura rubra Lour.
  • Aucubaephyllum lioukiense Ahlb.
  • Polyozus lanceolata Lour.
  • Psychotria antherura Schult.
  • Psychotria esquirolii H.Lév.
  • Psychotria reevesii Wall.
  • Psychotria reevesii var. pilosa Pit.
  • Psychotria rubra (Lour.) Poir.
  • Psychotria rubra var. lanceolata H.L.Li
  • Psychotria rubra var. pilosa (Pit.) W.C.Chen
  • Psychotrophum asiaticum (L.) Crantz
  • Uragoga rubra (Lour.) Kuntze

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.