Tarenna asiatica(L.) Kuntze ex K.Schum.

WFO wfo-0000320888 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Tarenna asiatica, photographed by P Jeganathan
fig. a P Jeganathan, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-08-04 / obs. 47255859
Tarenna asiatica, photographed by Ajit Ampalakkad
fig. b Ajit Ampalakkad, CC0 1.0 / obs. 48436171
Tarenna asiatica, photographed by Ajit Ampalakkad
fig. c Ajit Ampalakkad, CC0 1.0 / obs. 48436253
Tarenna asiatica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43116104
Tarenna asiatica, photographed by Malaika Mathew Chawla
fig. e Malaika Mathew Chawla, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204051150
Tarenna asiatica, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. f 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165250076
Tarenna asiatica, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. g 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165254899
Tarenna asiatica, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. h Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 93444384

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Tarenna asiatica is native: Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, India, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam TaiwanAssamBangladeshBorneoIndiaLaosMyanmarSri LankaThailandVietnam Nansei-shotoAndaman Is.
Native distribution of Tarenna asiatica, 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
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Sri Lanka SRL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
Nansei-shoto NNS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Taiwan TAI

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 25 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.

  • Canthium corymbosum (Willd.) Pers.
  • Chomelia asiatica (L.) Kuntze
  • Chomelia corymbosa (Willd.) K.Schum.
  • Chomelia kotoensis Hayata
  • Cupia corymbosa (Willd.) DC.
  • Gardenia pavetta Roxb. ex Wight & Arn.
  • Genipa pavetta (Roxb. ex Wight & Arn.) Baill.
  • Pavetta wightiana Wall.
  • Polyozus maderaspatana DC.
  • Rondeletia asiatica L.
  • Stylocoryna rigida Wight
  • Stylocoryna webera A.Rich.
  • Tarenna asiatica f. rigida (Wight) D.C.S.Raju
  • Tarenna corymbosa (Willd.) Pit.
  • Tarenna glomeriflora (Kurz) D.C.S.Raju
  • Tarenna gracilipes var. kotoensis (Hayata) T.Yamaz.
  • Tarenna gyokushinkwa var. yaeyamensis (Masam.) Hatus.
  • Tarenna kotoensis (Hayata) Kaneh. & Sasaki
  • Tarenna kotoensis (Hayata) Masam.
  • Tarenna kotoensis var. yaeyamensis Masam.
  • Tarenna zeylanica Gaertn.
  • Webera asiatica (L.) Bedd.
  • Webera cerifera Moon
  • Webera corymbosa Willd.

and 1 more.

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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