Stachyphrynium spicatum(Roxb.) K.Schum.

WFO wfo-0000557847 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Stachyphrynium spicatum, photographed by S.MORE
fig. a S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / 2020-02-12 / obs. 61423731
Stachyphrynium spicatum, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 128817052
Stachyphrynium spicatum, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 128783264
Stachyphrynium spicatum, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 128158131
Stachyphrynium spicatum, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 128817063
Stachyphrynium spicatum, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. f Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 128783269
Stachyphrynium spicatum, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. g Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 128158136
Stachyphrynium spicatum, photographed by S.MORE
fig. h S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 61423754

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Stachyphrynium spicatum is native: China South-Central, Andaman Is., Bangladesh, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand China South-CentralBangladeshIndiaLaosMyanmarThailand Andaman Is.
Native distribution of Stachyphrynium spicatum, 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
Bangladesh BAN
India IND
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Thailand THA
China South-Central CHC 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.

Also published as 12 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.

  • Halopegia cadelliana K.Schum.
  • Maranta caespitosa A.Dietr.
  • Maranta spicata (Roxb.) Thwaites
  • Phrynium cadellianum King ex Baker
  • Phrynium spicatum Roxb.
  • Phrynium zeylanicum Benth. & Hook.f.
  • Phyllodes spicata (Roxb.) Kuntze
  • Stachyphrynium cadellianum (King ex Baker) N.P.Balakr.
  • Stachyphrynium mekongense Gagnep.
  • Stachyphrynium sinense H.Li
  • Stachyphrynium tetranthum K.Larsen
  • Stachyphrynium zeylanicum K.Schum.

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.