Viola pilosaBlume

WFO wfo-0001145134 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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 pilosa, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. a Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-03-01 / obs. 66349296
Viola pilosa, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. b Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66349345
Viola pilosa, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. c Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66349312
Viola pilosa, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66349324
Viola pilosa, photographed by desertnaturalist
fig. e desertnaturalist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65815575
Viola pilosa, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. f Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 52184524
Viola pilosa, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. g Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 52184497
Viola pilosa, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. h Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 52184537

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Viola pilosa is native: Afghanistan, China South-Central, China Southeast, Tibet, Assam, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya AfghanistanChina South-CentralChina SoutheastTibetAssamEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalukuMyanmarNepalPakistanSri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Viola pilosa, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
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 11 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 aspera Ging.
  • Viola blumei Korth.
  • Viola buchaniana DC. ex D.Don
  • Viola burgersdijkii Oudem.
  • Viola celebica W.Becker
  • Viola griffithiana Boiss.
  • Viola palmaris Buch.-Ham. ex Ging.
  • Viola pogonantha W.W.Sm.
  • Viola serpens Wall. ex Ging.
  • Viola serpens subsp. gurhwalensis W.Becker
  • Viola serpens var. pseudoscotophylla Boiss.

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.