Ribes orientaleDesf.

WFO wfo-0000405122 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 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.

Ribes orientale, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. a Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2015-06-03 / obs. 48401103
Ribes orientale, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. b Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 48401124
Ribes orientale, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. c Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 48401096
Ribes orientale, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 48401114

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Ribes orientale is native: Afghanistan, China South-Central, Iran, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, East Himalaya, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya, Greece AfghanistanChina South-CentralIranLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusTadzhikistanTibetTranscaucasusTürkiyeEast HimalayaNepalPakistanWest HimalayaGreece
Native distribution of Ribes orientale, 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
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
Iran IRN
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Tadzhikistan TZK
Tibet CHT
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
West Himalaya WHM
Greece GRC EUROPE

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 11 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.

  • Ribes alpinum C.A.Mey.
  • Ribes bridgesii Hook.f.
  • Ribes glutinosum Jacquem. ex Decne.
  • Ribes leptostachyum Decne.
  • Ribes odoriferum K.Koch
  • Ribes orientale var. genuinum Jancz.
  • Ribes orientale var. resinosum Jancz.
  • Ribes punctatum Lindl.
  • Ribes resinosum Pursh
  • Ribes villosum Wall.
  • Ribes viscosum Cels ex Dum.Cours.

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.