Zornia diphylla(L.) Pers.

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WFO wfo-0000204275 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

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.

Zornia diphylla, photographed by Sebastian Serna Muñoz
fig. a Sebastian Serna Muñoz, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-04-26 / obs. 36470222
Zornia diphylla, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. b Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 627355
Zornia diphylla, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. c Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 627356
Zornia diphylla, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. d Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 627357
Zornia diphylla, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. e Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 627358
Zornia diphylla, photographed by Diana Fuentes
fig. f Diana Fuentes, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 45669028
Zornia diphylla, photographed by Diana Fuentes
fig. g Diana Fuentes, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 45669087
Zornia diphylla, photographed by Diana Fuentes
fig. h Diana Fuentes, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 45669131

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 3474336
Filed as
Zornia diphylla (L.) Pers.
Det. by
Hoff, M.
Collected
M. Hoff 1999-06-29
Origin
GF
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Zornia diphylla is native: China South-Central, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China South-CentralBangladeshIndiaMyanmarSri LankaThailandVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Zornia diphylla, 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
Bangladesh BAN ASIA-TROPICAL
India IND
Myanmar MYA
Sri Lanka SRL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE

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.

  • Hedysarum conjugatum Willd.
  • Hedysarum diphyllum L.
  • Lupinus angustifolius Blanco
  • Smithia bigeminata Blanco
  • Zornia ceylanica Heynh.
  • Zornia conjugata (Willd.) Sm.
  • Zornia diphylla var. conjugata (Willd.) Domin
  • Zornia diphylla var. zeylonensis (Pers.) Benth.
  • Zornia glabella Span.
  • Zornia nuda Vogel
  • Zornia venusta Wall. ex Steud.
  • Zornia zeylonensis Pers.

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.