Sonneratia ovataBacker

WFO wfo-0001223782 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 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.

Sonneratia ovata, photographed by Abu Hamas
fig. a Abu Hamas, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2013-11-29 / obs. 51197072
Sonneratia ovata, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. b Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 72574090
Sonneratia ovata, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. c Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 72574084
Sonneratia ovata, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. d Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 72574092
Sonneratia ovata, photographed by Abu Hamas
fig. e Abu Hamas, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 51196828
Sonneratia ovata, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. f Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 72574088

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Sonneratia ovata is native: Hainan, Andaman Is., Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Malaya, Maluku, New Guinea, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Thailand, Vietnam HainanBorneoCambodiaJawaMalayaMalukuNew GuineaSolomon Is.SulawesiThailandVietnam Andaman Is.
Native distribution of Sonneratia ovata, 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
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
Jawa JAW
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
New Guinea NWG
Solomon Is. SOL
Sulawesi SUL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
Hainan CHH ASIA-TEMPERATE

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.

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.