Sabia limoniaceaWall. ex Hook.f. & Thomson

WFO wfo-0001133478 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Sabia limoniacea, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. a Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-03-01 / obs. 138125044
Sabia limoniacea, photographed by Aaron Liston
fig. b Aaron Liston, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9590233
Sabia limoniacea, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. c Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138125067
Sabia limoniacea, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138125111
Sabia limoniacea, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. e Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138125090

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Sabia limoniacea is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaLaosMalayaMyanmarSumateraThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Sabia limoniacea, 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
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH

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 7 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.

  • Androglossa reticulatum Benth.
  • Androglossum reticulatum Champ. ex Benth.
  • Myrsine hookeriana Steud.
  • Sabia celastrinea Müll.Berol.
  • Sabia limoniacea var. ardisioides L.Chen
  • Sabia malabarica Bedd.
  • Sabia paniculata Seem.

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.