Strobocalyx arborea(Buch.-Ham.) Sch.Bip.

WFO wfo-0000009255 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 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.

Strobocalyx arborea, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. a Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-02-26 / obs. 66346612
Strobocalyx arborea, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. b Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65982893
Strobocalyx arborea, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 153436517
Strobocalyx arborea, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 201823327
Strobocalyx arborea, photographed by Rama Narayanan
fig. e Rama Narayanan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116920426
Strobocalyx arborea, photographed by Seema Merchant
fig. f Seema Merchant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190804900
Strobocalyx arborea, photographed by Rama Narayanan
fig. g Rama Narayanan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116920037
Strobocalyx arborea, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. h Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 45204829

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Strobocalyx arborea is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastAssamBangladeshBorneoIndiaJawaLaosMalayaMyanmarNepalNew GuineaPhilippinesSri LankaSumateraThailandVietnam Andaman Is.
Native distribution of Strobocalyx arborea, 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
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS

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 11 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.

  • Eupatorium javanicum Boerl.
  • Gymnanthemum arboreum (Buch.-Ham.) H.Rob.
  • Leucomeris celebica Blume ex DC.
  • Strobocalyx blumeana Sch.Bip.
  • Strobocalyx celebica Sch.Bip.
  • Strobocalyx javanica Sch.Bip.
  • Vernonia arborea var. celebica (Blume) J.Kost.
  • Vernonia celebica (Blume) DC.
  • Vernonia javanica (Blume) DC.
  • Vernonia javanica var. javanica
  • Vernonia urdanetense Elmer

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.