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Ardisia polycephala; photograph Kurt Stüber, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SAKurt Stüber, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Ardisia polycephala Wall. ex A.DC.

Primulaceae · China South-Central, Assam +3

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Ardisia polycephala Wall. ex A.DC.: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, Wall.

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Ardisia polycephala, photograph Kurt Stüber, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsArdisia polycephala, photograph Kurt Stüber, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsArdisia polycephala, photograph Nadiatalent, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsArdisia polycephala, photograph Nadiatalent, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsArdisia polycephala, photograph Vojtěch Zavadil, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsArdisia polycephala, photograph Michael Wolf (Webseite), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 8 photographs ›

About the genus · Ardisia

Ardisia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Primulaceae. It was in the former Myrsinaceae family now recognised as the myrsine sub-family Myrsinoideae. They are distributed in the Americas, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands, mainly in the tropics. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Ardisia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 15 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 15 of the 15 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, Assam, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker19.255, 97.994 · in the densest population, 6 records (40% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 15 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 13 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 7 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 15 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 15 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Kurt Stüber, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Nadiatalent, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Vojtěch Zavadil, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Michael Wolf (Webseite), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Ardisia 25 in the reference

Ardisia brunnescens Primulaceae Ardisia compressa Ardisia compressa Primulaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedArdisia cornudentata Ardisia cornudentata Primulaceae Photo: CC BY, Hazel ChangArdisia crenata Ardisia crenata Hen's eyes Photo: CC BY, Alex AbairArdisia crispa Ardisia crispa Japanese-holly Photo: CC BY, plant 0302 Ardisia densilepidotula Primulaceae Ardisia elliptica Ardisia elliptica Shoe-button ardisia Photo: CC BY-SA, Douglas GoldmanArdisia escallonioides Ardisia escallonioides Dogberry Photo: CC BY, Tom Field Ardisia gigantifolia Primulaceae Ardisia guianensis Ardisia guianensis Primulaceae Photo: CC BY, Guillaume DelaitreArdisia hanceana Ardisia hanceana Primulaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedArdisia humilis Ardisia humilis Low shoebutton Photo: CC BY, Zac Peterson all 26 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Tinus polycephala. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Primulaceae
Described by
Wall. ex A.DC.
Native to
China South-Central, Assam, Laos +2
Wild records
15 in range · 13 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21GBIF's key 5414376 is Ardisia polycephala Wall.; the page links Kew's Ardisia polycephala Wall. ex A.DC., and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2115 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 11 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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