Symplocos sawafutagiNagam.

WFO wfo-0000491092 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Symplocos sawafutagi, photographed by mami_t_t
fig. a mami_t_t, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-27 / obs. 191278352
Symplocos sawafutagi, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. b Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137282506
Symplocos sawafutagi, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. c Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 19774380
Symplocos sawafutagi, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. d Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137282277
Symplocos sawafutagi, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. e Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 19774894
Symplocos sawafutagi, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. f Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137282551
Symplocos sawafutagi, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. g Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 19774831
Symplocos sawafutagi, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. h Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 19774836

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Symplocos sawafutagi is native: Japan, Korea Japan Korea
Native distribution of Symplocos sawafutagi, 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
Japan JAP ASIA-TEMPERATE
Korea KOR

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 14 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.

  • Palura chinensis f. leucocarpa (Nakai) Nakai
  • Palura chinensis var. leucocarpa (Nakai) H.Hara
  • Palura chinensis var. pilosa Nakai
  • Palura ciliata Nakai ex H.Hara
  • Palura paniculata var. leucocarpa (Nakai) Nakai
  • Palura paniculata var. pilosa Nakai
  • Palura pilosa (Nakai) Honda
  • Palura pilosa f. leucocarpa (Nakai) Honda
  • Symplocos chinensis f. pilosa (Nakai) Ohwi
  • Symplocos chinensis subsp. pilosa (Nakai) Kitag.
  • Symplocos chinensis var. leucocarpa (Nakai) Ohwi
  • Symplocos crataegoides var. leucocarpa (Nakai) Makino & Nemoto
  • Symplocos paniculata var. leucocarpa Nakai
  • Symplocos sawafutagi f. leucocarpa (Nakai) Yonek.

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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