Strombosia ceylanicaGardner

WFO wfo-0000505584 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 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.

Strombosia ceylanica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. a Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2017-12-08 / obs. 66228159
Strombosia ceylanica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. b Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66228180
Strombosia ceylanica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. c Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66228255
Strombosia ceylanica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66228262
Strombosia ceylanica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. e Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66228172
Strombosia ceylanica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. f Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66228190
Strombosia ceylanica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. g Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66228203
Strombosia ceylanica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. h Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66228244

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 2888037
Filed as
Strombosia ceylanica Gardner
Det. by
Levin, G. A., (CAN), Canadian Museum of Nature (CANADA)
Collected
W. J. de Wilde & B. E. de Wilde-Duyfjes 1975-03-21
Origin
ID
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Strombosia ceylanica is native: Borneo, India, Jawa, Malaya, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Thailand BorneoIndiaJawaMalayaMyanmarSri LankaSumateraThailand
Native distribution of Strombosia ceylanica, 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
Borneo BOR ASIA-TROPICAL
India IND
Jawa JAW
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Sri Lanka SRL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA

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 16 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.

  • Anacolosa maingayi Mast.
  • Lasianthera membranacea (Blume) Miq.
  • Lavallea ceylanica (Gardner) Baill.
  • Sphaerocarya leprosa Dalzell
  • Stemonurus membranaceus Blume
  • Strombosia ceylanica var. lucida Hochr.
  • Strombosia ceylanica var. membranacea (Blume) Hochr.
  • Strombosia ceylanica var. sessilis Hochr.
  • Strombosia latifolia Stapf
  • Strombosia leprosa (Dalzell) Talbot
  • Strombosia lucida Teijsm. & Binn.
  • Strombosia maingayi (Mast.) Whitmore
  • Strombosia membranacea (Blume) Valeton
  • Strombosia multiflora King
  • Strombosia rapaneoides S.Moore
  • Strombosia rotundifolia King

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.