Trichogalium elegans(Wall.) Kadereit & Schneew.

WFO wfo-1000089741 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / 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.

Trichogalium elegans, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. a Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-06 / obs. 203984509
Trichogalium elegans, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. b Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200470123
Trichogalium elegans, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. c Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203984469
Trichogalium elegans, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. d Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136969318
Trichogalium elegans, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. e Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136980214
Trichogalium elegans, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. f Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 69419449
Trichogalium elegans, photographed by John Kees
fig. g John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 47009875
Trichogalium elegans, photographed by Vincent Weber
fig. h Vincent Weber, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 176728702

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Native range 17 botanical countries

Regions where Trichogalium elegans is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Qinghai, Taiwan, Tibet, Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, East Himalaya, Jawa, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, West Himalaya China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastQinghaiTaiwanTibetAssamBangladeshBorneoEast HimalayaJawaMyanmarNepalPakistanPhilippinesThailandWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Trichogalium elegans, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
East Himalaya EHM
Jawa JAW
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
Philippines PHI
Thailand THA
West Himalaya WHM
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Qinghai CHQ
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT

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 20 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.

  • Galium elegans Wall.
  • Galium elegans f. glabriusculum (Req. ex DC.) H.Hara ex H.Ohba
  • Galium elegans f. vestitum (D.Don) H.Hara
  • Galium elegans var. elegans
  • Galium elegans var. glabriusculum Req. ex DC.
  • Galium elegans var. nephrostigmaticum (Diels) W.C.Chen
  • Galium elegans var. punduanum (Wall. ex Craib) Cufod.
  • Galium elegans var. velutinum Cufod.
  • Galium hamiltonii Spreng.
  • Galium javanicum var. leiocarpum Miq.
  • Galium latifolium Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don
  • Galium mairei H.Lév.
  • Galium nephrostigmaticum Diels
  • Galium panduanum Steud.
  • Galium petiolatum E.T.Geddes
  • Galium pseudoellipticum Lingelsh. & Borza
  • Galium punduanum Wall. ex Craib
  • Galium requienianum Wight & Arn.
  • Galium rotundifolium var. leiocarpum (Miq.) Hook.f.
  • Galium vestitum D.Don

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.