Terminalia calamansanai(Blanco) Rolfe

WFO wfo-0000406936 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 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.

Terminalia calamansanai, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. a Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-10-29 / obs. 166217226
Terminalia calamansanai, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. b Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 124005822
Terminalia calamansanai, photographed by Cheongweei Gan
fig. c Cheongweei Gan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119468619
Terminalia calamansanai, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. d Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 115893830
Terminalia calamansanai, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. e Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 105212188
Terminalia calamansanai, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. f Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 101670909
Terminalia calamansanai, photographed by Cheongweei Gan
fig. g Cheongweei Gan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119468630
Terminalia calamansanai, photographed by Cheongweei Gan
fig. h Cheongweei Gan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148941294

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
190672
Filed as
Terminalia calamansanai (Blanco) Rolfe
Det. by
C. R. Annable 1997-01-01
Collected
C. R. Annable 1997-04-01
Origin
US
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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 12 botanical countries

Regions where Terminalia calamansanai is native: Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Thailand, Vietnam BangladeshBorneoCambodiaLaosMalayaMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.SulawesiThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Terminalia calamansanai, 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
Bangladesh BAN ASIA-TROPICAL
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sulawesi SUL
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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 31 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 23.7 °C 23.9 °C 24.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 28.7 °C 29.2 °C 29.6 °C
Annual rainfall 2,326 mm 2,462 mm 2,501 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 491 mm 498 mm 513 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 31 research-grade observations of Terminalia calamansanai that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 13 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.

  • Gimbernatia calamansanai Blanco
  • Pentaptera mollis C.Presl
  • Pentaptera pyrifolia C.Presl
  • Pentaptera pyrifolia Wall.
  • Terminalia bialata var. cuneifolia C.B.Clarke
  • Terminalia blancoi Merr.
  • Terminalia calamansanai var. acuminata Merr.
  • Terminalia calamansanai var. platypteris Merr.
  • Terminalia latialata C.T.White
  • Terminalia mollis S.Vidal
  • Terminalia oryzetorum Craib
  • Terminalia papilio Hance
  • Terminalia pyrifolia (C.Presl) Kurz

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.