Taxus mairei(Lemée & H.Lév.) S.Y.Hu

Maire's YewMaire's yew

WFO wfo-0000459404 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Taxus mairei, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. a 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / 2015-01-28 / obs. 32409511
Taxus mairei, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. b 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102052912
Taxus mairei, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. c 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32409516
Taxus mairei, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. d 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102052917

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Taxus mairei is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Taiwan, Assam, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanAssamLaosMyanmarNepalVietnam
Native distribution of Taxus mairei, 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
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Taiwan TAI
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
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 7 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.

  • Taxus chinensis var. mairei (Lemee & Levl.) W.C.Cheng & L.K.Fu
  • Taxus kingstonii Spjut
  • Taxus mairei var. speciosa (Florin) Spjut
  • Taxus speciosa Florin
  • Taxus sumatrana subsp. mairei (Lemée & H.Lév.) Silba
  • Taxus wallichiana var. mairei (Lemée & H.Lév.) L.K.Fu & Nan Li
  • Tsuga mairei Lemée & H.Lév.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.