Strobilanthes wallichiiNees

WFO wfo-0000433281 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 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.

Strobilanthes wallichii, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. a 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / 2014-07-13 / obs. 31620630
Strobilanthes wallichii, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. b 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31620636
Strobilanthes wallichii, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. c 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31620644
Strobilanthes wallichii, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. d 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31620643
Strobilanthes wallichii, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. e 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31620624

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Strobilanthes wallichii is native: Afghanistan, China South-Central, China Southeast, Taiwan, Tibet, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Vietnam, West Himalaya AfghanistanChina South-CentralChina SoutheastTaiwanTibetBangladeshEast HimalayaMyanmarNepalPakistanVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Strobilanthes wallichii, 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
Bangladesh BAN ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT

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 9 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.

  • Hemigraphis culionensis S.Y.Hu
  • Pteracanthus alatus (Wall. ex Nees) Bremek.
  • Ruellia alata Wall.
  • Ruellia alata Wall. ex Nees
  • Ruellia ampliata Edgew. ex Nees
  • Strobilanthes alata (Wall.) Nees
  • Strobilanthes atropurpurea var. wallichii (Nees) Kuntze
  • Strobilanthes latisepala Hemsl.
  • Strobilanthes wallichii var. microphylla Nees

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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