Torenia violacea(Azaola) Pennell

WFO wfo-0001140273 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 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.

Torenia violacea, photographed by 黃美滿
fig. a 黃美滿, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-09-07 / obs. 94134764
Torenia violacea, photographed by fagushayata
fig. b fagushayata, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 28834269
Torenia violacea, photographed by fagushayata
fig. c fagushayata, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 28834275
Torenia violacea, photographed by 黃美滿
fig. d 黃美滿, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 94134719
Torenia violacea, photographed by fagushayata
fig. e fagushayata, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 28834278
Torenia violacea, photographed by fagushayata
fig. f fagushayata, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 28834283
Torenia violacea, photographed by fagushayata
fig. g fagushayata, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 28834286
Torenia violacea, photographed by 黃美滿
fig. h 黃美滿, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 94134804

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Native range 23 botanical countries

Regions where Torenia violacea is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Taiwan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China South-CentralChina SoutheastTaiwanAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNepalNew GuineaPhilippinesSumateraThailandVietnamWest Himalaya Andaman Is.Nicobar Is.
Native distribution of Torenia violacea, 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
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
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 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.

  • Mimulus violaceus Azaola
  • Torenia alba Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.
  • Torenia edentula Benth.
  • Torenia exappendiculata Regel
  • Torenia paniculata Blanco
  • Torenia peduncularis Benth. ex Hook.f.
  • Torenia violacea var. chinensis T.Yamaz.

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.