Tinospora smilacinaBenth.

WFO wfo-0000456529 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Tinospora smilacina, photographed by Hugo Innes
fig. a Hugo Innes, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 201509933
Tinospora smilacina, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. b Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195469661
Tinospora smilacina, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. c Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195554050
Tinospora smilacina, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. d Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 186699374
Tinospora smilacina, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. e Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 186692501
Tinospora smilacina, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. f Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 184772692
Tinospora smilacina, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. g Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 184025372
Tinospora smilacina, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. h Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 176180738

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Tinospora smilacina is native: New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia New South WalesNorthern TerritoryQueenslandWestern Australia
Native distribution of Tinospora smilacina, 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
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
Northern Territory NTA
Queensland QLD
Western Australia WAU

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 5 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.

  • Cocculus smilacinus F.Muell. ex Benth.
  • Tinospora berneyi F.M.Bailey
  • Tinospora smilacina var. berneyi (F.M.Bailey) Domin
  • Tinospora smilacina var. typica Domin
  • Tinospora walcottii F.Muell. ex Benth.

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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