Zanthoxylum simulansHance

Chinese-pepper

WFO wfo-0000429371 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / 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.

Zanthoxylum simulans, photographed by 葉子
fig. a 葉子, CC0 1.0 / 2020-02-25 / obs. 62662515
Zanthoxylum simulans, photographed by mecarr
fig. b mecarr, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190684008
Zanthoxylum simulans, photographed by mecarr
fig. c mecarr, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142208377
Zanthoxylum simulans, photographed by Navin Sasikumar
fig. d Navin Sasikumar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129943107
Zanthoxylum simulans, photographed by mecarr
fig. e mecarr, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190684031
Zanthoxylum simulans, photographed by mecarr
fig. f mecarr, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142208417
Zanthoxylum simulans, photographed by Navin Sasikumar
fig. g Navin Sasikumar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129943128
Zanthoxylum simulans, photographed by Zihao Wang
fig. h Zihao Wang, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14544818

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Zanthoxylum simulans is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Korea, Qinghai, Taiwan China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastQinghaiTaiwan Korea
Native distribution of Zanthoxylum simulans, 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
Korea KOR
Qinghai CHQ
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 12 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.

  • Fagara podocarpa (Hemsl.) Engl.
  • Fagara setosa Engl.
  • Zanthoxylum acanthophyllum Hayata
  • Zanthoxylum argyi H.Lév.
  • Zanthoxylum bungeanum var. zimmermannii (Rehder & E.H.Wilson) C.C.Huang
  • Zanthoxylum bungei var. inermis Franch.
  • Zanthoxylum bungei var. zimmermannii Rehder & E.H.Wilson
  • Zanthoxylum coreanum Nakai
  • Zanthoxylum podocarpum Hemsl.
  • Zanthoxylum setosum Hemsl. ex F.B.Forbes & Hemsl.
  • Zanthoxylum simulans var. podocarpum (Hemsl.) C.C.Huang
  • Zanthoxylum simulans var. zimmermannii (Rehder & E.H.Wilson) Rehder

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.

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.