Sarcandra glabra(Thunb.) Nakai

WFO wfo-0000438024 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sarcandra glabra, photographed by 胡正恆(Jackson Hu)
fig. a 胡正恆(Jackson Hu), CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-03 / obs. 204081673
Sarcandra glabra, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. b Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 194272712
Sarcandra glabra, photographed by Moogoo Lee
fig. c Moogoo Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192764676
Sarcandra glabra, photographed by Toby Y
fig. d Toby Y, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176086044
Sarcandra glabra, photographed by Toby Y
fig. e Toby Y, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174073575
Sarcandra glabra, photographed by Toby Y
fig. f Toby Y, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173383973
Sarcandra glabra, photographed by mami_t_t
fig. g mami_t_t, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172042712
Sarcandra glabra, photographed by Takaaki Hattori
fig. h Takaaki Hattori, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171852331

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Native range 23 botanical countries

Regions where Sarcandra glabra is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanJapanTaiwanAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSri LankaSumateraThailandVietnam KoreaNansei-shoto
Native distribution of Sarcandra glabra, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI

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 38 in flower of 286 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Sarcandra glabra 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. 38 of 286 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.

Also published as 27 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.

  • Ardisia glabra (Thunb.) A.DC.
  • Ascarina serrata Blume
  • Bladhia glabra Thunb.
  • Chloranthus brachystachys Blume
  • Chloranthus brachystachys var. flavus Makino
  • Chloranthus brachystachys var. melanocarpa Ridl.
  • Chloranthus brachystachys var. melanocarpus Ridl.
  • Chloranthus ceylanicus Miq.
  • Chloranthus denticulatus Cordem.
  • Chloranthus esquirolii H.Lév.
  • Chloranthus glaber (Thunb.) Makino
  • Chloranthus glaber var. flavus Makino
  • Chloranthus grandifolius Miq.
  • Chloranthus hainanensis C.Pei
  • Chloranthus ilicifolius Blume ex Miq.
  • Chloranthus monander R.Br.
  • Chloranthus monostachys R.Br.
  • Chloranthus montanus Siebold ex Miq.
  • Chloranthus pernyanus Solms
  • Sarcandra chloranthoides Gardner
  • Sarcandra glabra f. flava (Makino) Okuyama
  • Sarcandra glabra var. brachystachys (Blume) Verdc.
  • Sarcandra grandifolia (Miq.) Subr. & A.N.Henry
  • Sarcandra hainanensis (C.Pei) Swamy & I.W.Bailey

and 3 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.