Viburnum erosumThunb.

leather-leaf viburnum

WFO wfo-0001042019 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Viburnum erosum, photographed by harum.koh
fig. a harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-04-03 / obs. 118702218
Viburnum erosum, photographed by Junichi　Mandai
fig. b Junichi　Mandai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 68589797
Viburnum erosum, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135722864
Viburnum erosum, photographed by harum.koh
fig. d harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 40118992
Viburnum erosum, photographed by harum.koh
fig. e harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 35363445
Viburnum erosum, photographed by harum.koh
fig. f harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 16070660
Viburnum erosum, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. g Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63525409
Viburnum erosum, photographed by 岸本年郎
fig. h 岸本年郎, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188398960

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Viburnum erosum is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea, Taiwan China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastJapanTaiwan Korea
Native distribution of Viburnum erosum, 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
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
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 16 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.

  • Viburnum erosum f. taquetii (H.Lév.) Sugimoto
  • Viburnum erosum subsp. ichangense (Hemsl.) P.S.Hsu
  • Viburnum erosum var. atratocarpum P.S.Hsu
  • Viburnum erosum var. erosum
  • Viburnum erosum var. ichangense Hemsl.
  • Viburnum erosum var. laeve Franch. & Sav.
  • Viburnum erosum var. punctatum Franch. & Sav.
  • Viburnum erosum var. setchuenense Graebn.
  • Viburnum erosum var. taquetii (H.Lév.) Rehder
  • Viburnum ichangense (Hemsl.) Rehder
  • Viburnum ichangense var. atratocarpum (P.S.Hsu) T.R.Dudley & S.C.Sun
  • Viburnum matsudae Hayata
  • Viburnum meyer-waldeckii Loes.
  • Viburnum sikokianum Koidz.
  • Viburnum taquetii H.Lév.
  • Viburnum villosifolium Hayata

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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