Styphelia malayanaJ.J.Sm.

WFO wfo-0000499895 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 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.

Styphelia malayana, photographed by coenobita
fig. a coenobita, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-10-09 / obs. 26370677
Styphelia malayana, photographed by coenobita
fig. b coenobita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 26370685
Styphelia malayana, photographed by coenobita
fig. c coenobita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 26370678

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Styphelia malayana is native: Borneo, Cambodia, Malaya, Myanmar, New Guinea, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam BorneoCambodiaMalayaMyanmarNew GuineaSumateraThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Styphelia malayana, 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
Cambodia CBD
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE

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 4 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.

  • Leucopogon malayanus Jack
  • Leucopogon malayanus subsp. novoguineensis (Sleumer) Pedley
  • Styphelia malaica (Jack) Spreng.
  • Styphelia malayana var. novoguineensis Sleumer

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.