Turpinia montana(Blume) Kurz

WFO wfo-0001226731 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

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.

Turpinia montana, photographed by Toby Y
fig. a Toby Y, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-07 / obs. 186680059
Turpinia montana, photographed by Toby Y
fig. b Toby Y, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186680311
Turpinia montana, photographed by Toby Y
fig. c Toby Y, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186680053
Turpinia montana, photographed by Yj
fig. d Yj, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182776673
Turpinia montana, photographed by Yj
fig. e Yj, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182776684
Turpinia montana, photographed by Yj
fig. f Yj, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182776718
Turpinia montana, photographed by Yj
fig. g Yj, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182776700
Turpinia montana, photographed by Yj
fig. h Yj, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182776726

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Turpinia montana is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Myanmar, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaMyanmarSumateraThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Turpinia montana, 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
Cambodia CBD ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Myanmar MYA
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS

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.

  • Cassine zollingeri Kuntze
  • Evodia parviflora Craib
  • Fagara montana Engl.
  • Fagara serrulata (Blume) Engl.
  • Maurocenia zollingeri Kuntze
  • Sambucus cochinchinensis Spreng.
  • Sambucus integerrima Stokes
  • Staphylea zanthoxyloides Byng & Christenh.
  • Turpinia glaberrima Merr.
  • Turpinia glaberrima var. stenophylla Merr. & L.M.Perry
  • Turpinia gracilis Nakai
  • Turpinia montana f. arborescens Hochr.
  • Turpinia montana f. scandens Hochr.
  • Turpinia montana var. glaberrima (Merr.) T.Z.Hsu
  • Turpinia montana var. montana
  • Turpinia montana var. stenophylla (Merr. & L.M.Perry) T.Z.Hsu
  • Turpinia parva Koord. & Valeton
  • Turpinia parviflora (Craib) Craib
  • Zanthoxylum montanum Blume
  • Zanthoxylum serrulatum Blume

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.