Urceola micrantha(Wall. ex G.Don) D.J.Middleton

WFO wfo-0000330495 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

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.

Urceola micrantha, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-14 / obs. 130991914
Urceola micrantha, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63640541
Urceola micrantha, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. c Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14060325
Urceola micrantha, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. d Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14060305
Urceola micrantha, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. e 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160013928
Urceola micrantha, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. f Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60701325
Urceola micrantha, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. g 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160013933
Urceola micrantha, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. h Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60701330

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Urceola micrantha is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Tibet, Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, East Himalaya, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanTibetAssamBangladeshCambodiaEast HimalayaLaosMalayaMyanmarThailandVietnam Nansei-shoto
Native distribution of Urceola micrantha, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Nansei-shoto NNS
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 31 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.

  • Chavannesia montana (M.R.Hend.) Pichon
  • Cudicia gyrandra Buch.-Ham. ex Dillwyn
  • Ecdysanthera annamensis Vernet
  • Ecdysanthera brachiata A.DC.
  • Ecdysanthera cambodiensis Pierre
  • Ecdysanthera langbiani Vernet
  • Ecdysanthera linearicarpa Pierre
  • Ecdysanthera linocarpa Pierre
  • Ecdysanthera linocarpum Pierre
  • Ecdysanthera micrantha A.DC.
  • Ecdysanthera multiflora King & Gamble
  • Ecdysanthera utilis Hayata & Kawak.
  • Echites brachiatus Wall.
  • Echites micranthus Wall. ex G.Don
  • Parabarium brachiatum Pierre
  • Parabarium cambodiensis Pierre
  • Parabarium candollei Pierre
  • Parabarium chevalieri Pit.
  • Parabarium diu-do Dubard & Eberhardt
  • Parabarium diu-do var. longifolia Dubard & Eberh.
  • Parabarium langbiani (Vernet) Pichon
  • Parabarium linearicarpum (Pierre) Pichon
  • Parabarium linocarpum (Pierre) Pierre ex Spire
  • Parabarium micranthum Pierre

and 7 more.

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.