Viola inconspicuaBlume

WFO wfo-0001145062 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.

Viola inconspicua, photographed by Leila Dasher
fig. a Leila Dasher, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-28 / obs. 181281136
Viola inconspicua, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. b Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 126666251
Viola inconspicua, photographed by Toby Y
fig. c Toby Y, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113750164
Viola inconspicua, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. d Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 176194567
Viola inconspicua, photographed by Leila Dasher
fig. e Leila Dasher, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181281163
Viola inconspicua, photographed by Melinda Soltys
fig. f Melinda Soltys, CC0 1.0 / obs. 186915364
Viola inconspicua, photographed by Yj
fig. g Yj, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 16021147
Viola inconspicua, photographed by Yj
fig. h Yj, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 16021056

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Viola inconspicua is native: Mauritius, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Japan, Taiwan, Assam, East Himalaya, Jawa, Malaya, Myanmar, Philippines, Vietnam, West Himalaya China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanJapanTaiwanAssamEast HimalayaJawaMalayaMyanmarPhilippinesVietnamWest Himalaya Mauritius
Native distribution of Viola inconspicua, 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
East Himalaya EHM
Jawa JAW
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Philippines PHI
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Japan JAP
Taiwan TAI
Mauritius MAU AFRICA

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 17 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.

  • Viola apetala Roxb.
  • Viola confusa Champ. ex Benth.
  • Viola confusa subsp. nagasakiensis (W.Becker) F.Maek. & Hashim.
  • Viola confusa var. lanyuensis S.S.Ying
  • Viola inconspicua f. albescens (Taken.) Yonek.
  • Viola inconspicua subsp. nagasakiensis (W.Becker) J.C.Wang & T.C.Huang
  • Viola inconspicua var. minor (Makino) S.S.Ying
  • Viola mandshurica subsp. nagasakiensis W.Becker
  • Viola minor (Makino) Makino
  • Viola minor f. pilosa F.Maek.
  • Viola minor var. albescens Taken.
  • Viola minor var. ciliata Taken.
  • Viola patrinii var. minor Makino
  • Viola philippica subsp. malesica W.Becker
  • Viola primulifolia Lour.
  • Viola pseudomonbeigii Chang
  • Viola serpens var. confusa (Champ. ex Benth.) Hook.f. & Thomson

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.