Shuteria vestitaWight & Arn.

WFO wfo-0000183837 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY-SA

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.

Shuteria vestita, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. a Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2017-02-23 / obs. 141380139
Shuteria vestita, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 141380142
Shuteria vestita, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 141380147
Shuteria vestita, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 141380151

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Shuteria vestita is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Assam, East Himalaya, India, Lesser Sunda Is., Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanAssamEast HimalayaIndiaLesser Sunda Is.MyanmarNepalNew GuineaSri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Shuteria vestita, 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
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
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 17 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.

  • Galactia debilis Hassk.
  • Galactia rotundifolia Blume ex Miq.
  • Glycine glabrata Steud.
  • Glycine vestita Graham
  • Shuteria densiflora Benth.
  • Shuteria glabrata Wight & Arn.
  • Shuteria involucrata f. densiflora (Benth.) H.Ohashi
  • Shuteria involucrata f. vestita (Wight & Arn.) H.Ohashi
  • Shuteria involucrata var. glabrata (Wight & Arn.) H.Ohashi
  • Shuteria involucrata var. vestita (Wight & Arn.) H.Ohashi
  • Shuteria involucrata var. villosa (Pamp.) H.Ohashi
  • Shuteria pampaniniana Hand.-Mazz.
  • Shuteria rotundifolia Miq.
  • Shuteria vestita f. glabrata (Wight & Arn.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi
  • Shuteria vestita var. densiflora (Benth.) Baker
  • Shuteria vestita var. glabrata (Wight & Arn.) Baker
  • Shuteria vestita var. villosa Pamp.

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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