Tristellateia australasiaeA.Rich.

Maiden's jealousyShower of Gold

WFO wfo-0001237385 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Tristellateia australasiae, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. a Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-09 / obs. 204524301
Tristellateia australasiae, photographed by Forest Botial-Jarvis
fig. b Forest Botial-Jarvis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177227077
Tristellateia australasiae, photographed by Forest Botial-Jarvis
fig. c Forest Botial-Jarvis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172752008
Tristellateia australasiae, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. d Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 24850537
Tristellateia australasiae, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. e Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 24850551
Tristellateia australasiae, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. f Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 24850561
Tristellateia australasiae, photographed by 葉子
fig. g 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 27864264
Tristellateia australasiae, photographed by 葉子
fig. h 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 27864218

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Tristellateia australasiae is native: Comoros, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Queensland, Caroline Is., Marianas, New Caledonia, Vanuatu TaiwanBismarck ArchipelagoBorneoCambodiaJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamQueenslandNew Caledonia ComorosNansei-shotoCaroline Is.MarianasVanuatu
Native distribution of Tristellateia australasiae, 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
Bismarck Archipelago BIS ASIA-TROPICAL
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
Caroline Is. CRL PACIFIC
Marianas MRN
New Caledonia NWC
Vanuatu VAN
Nansei-shoto NNS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Taiwan TAI
Comoros COM AFRICA
Queensland QLD AUSTRALASIA

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 4 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.

  • Platynema laurifolium Wight & Arn.
  • Tristellateia australis A.Rich.
  • Tristellateia malintana Blanco
  • Tristellateia novaeguineensis Blume ex A.Juss.

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.

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