Vitis flexuosaThunb.

WFO wfo-0001145273 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / 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.

Vitis flexuosa, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-06 / obs. 133298846
Vitis flexuosa, photographed by 葉子
fig. b 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 64793635
Vitis flexuosa, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112252838
Vitis flexuosa, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133298853
Vitis flexuosa, photographed by 葉子
fig. e 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 64793624
Vitis flexuosa, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. f Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112252801
Vitis flexuosa, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. g Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133298835
Vitis flexuosa, photographed by 葉子
fig. h 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 64793630

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Vitis flexuosa is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Assam, Bangladesh, Christmas I., India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastJapanTaiwanAssamBangladeshIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MyanmarNepalPhilippinesSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamWest Himalaya KoreaNansei-shotoChristmas I.
Native distribution of Vitis flexuosa, 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
Christmas I. XMS
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Philippines PHI
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Nansei-shoto NNS
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 22 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.

  • Vitis cavaleriei H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Vitis cinerea Noronha
  • Vitis flexuosa f. crassifolia (Uyeki) H.Hara
  • Vitis flexuosa f. parvifolia (Roxb.) Planch.
  • Vitis flexuosa f. typica Planch.
  • Vitis flexuosa subsp. rufotomentosa (Makino) Murata
  • Vitis flexuosa var. chinensis H.J.Veitch
  • Vitis flexuosa var. crassifolia Uyeki
  • Vitis flexuosa var. parvifolia (Roxb.) Gagnep.
  • Vitis flexuosa var. wallichii (DC.) F.S.Wang
  • Vitis gilvo-tomentosa Makino & F.Maek.
  • Vitis parvifolia Roxb.
  • Vitis purani Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don
  • Vitis rufotomentosa (Makino) Makino
  • Vitis succisa Hance ex Walp.
  • Vitis sylvestris Blume
  • Vitis truncata Blume
  • Vitis tsukubana (Makino) Maek.
  • Vitis vinifera var. truncata (Blume) Kuntze
  • Vitis vitiginea var. truncata (Blume) Kuntze
  • Vitis vulpina var. parvifolia (Roxb.) Regel
  • Vitis wallichii DC.

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.