Sorbaria tomentosa(Lindl.) Rehder

Himalayan sorbariaKashmir false spiraea

WFO wfo-0001013044 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Sorbaria tomentosa, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. a Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-07-25 / obs. 51416438
Sorbaria tomentosa, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 174704123
Sorbaria tomentosa, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 174542663
Sorbaria tomentosa, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 51416446
Sorbaria tomentosa, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 174704118
Sorbaria tomentosa, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. f Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 174542666
Sorbaria tomentosa, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. g Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 174704129
Sorbaria tomentosa, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. h Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 51416455

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Sorbaria tomentosa is native: Afghanistan, Kirgizstan, Uzbekistan, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya AfghanistanKirgizstanUzbekistanNepalPakistanWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Sorbaria tomentosa, 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
Kirgizstan KGZ
Uzbekistan UZB
Nepal NEP ASIA-TROPICAL
Pakistan PAK
West Himalaya WHM

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 18 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.

  • Basilima lindleyana (Wall. ex Lindl.) Kuntze
  • Schizonotus aitchisonii (Hemsl.) Skeels
  • Schizonotus lindleyanus Wall. ex Steud.
  • Schizonotus lindleyanus (Wall. ex Lindl.) Nash
  • Schizonotus tomentosus Lindl.
  • Sorbaria aitchisonii (Hemsl.) Hemsl. ex Rehder
  • Sorbaria aitchisonii Hemsl.
  • Sorbaria angustifolia (Wenz.) Zabel
  • Sorbaria gilgitensis Zinserl.
  • Sorbaria lindleyana (Wall. ex Lindl.) Maxim.
  • Sorbaria olgae Zinserl.
  • Sorbaria sorbifolia var. lindleyana (Wall. ex Lindl.) K.Koch
  • Spiraea aitchisonii Hemsl.
  • Spiraea lindleyana Wall. ex Lindl.
  • Spiraea sorbifolia Hook.f.
  • Spiraea sorbifolia var. angustifolia Wenz.
  • Spiraea sorbifolia var. lindleyana (Wall. ex Lindl.) K.Koch
  • Spiraea sorbifolia var. lindleyana (Wall. ex Lindl.) Wenz.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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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