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

Ardisia solanacea Roxb.

Primulaceae · China South-Central, China Southeast +11

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GBIF's records not checked. GBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked. So this page has no points on its map, no map marker, no habitat climate, no cultivation sheet and no species of nearest climate; the range is Kew's. Not a statement that none exist. How.

Ardisia solanacea, photograph Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsArdisia solanacea, photograph Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsArdisia solanacea, photograph Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsArdisia solanacea, photograph Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsArdisia solanacea, photograph Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsArdisia solanacea, photograph Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

Summary

Ardisia solanacea, called shoebutton ardisia in English, is a species of the genus Ardisia in family Primulaceae (subfamily Myrsinoideae).

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

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

Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so no sheet is derived.

Climate across the habitat

Not checked. GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so none is derived here. This is not a statement that no climate exists.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Records not checked: GBIF's records were not asked, as said under the name.
NativeChina South-Central, China Southeast, Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Andaman Is., Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Vietnam, Malaya · 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).
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedGBIF's records not checked, as said under the name: so there are no points on the map, no map marker and no climate across the range; the range is Kew's. Not a statement that no record exists.

Photographs

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Photographs: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (6).

Similar habitat climate Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the nearest habitat climates are read from the climate they give.

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 Anguillaria solanacea; Ardisia elliptica var. solanacea; Bladhia solanacea. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Primulaceae
Described by
Roxb.
Native to
China South-Central, China Southeast, Assam +10
Records
not checked · GBIF's records were not asked: the page has no GBIF key

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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Ardisia solanacea Roxb. (plant_name_id 2648766), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
Habitat climate climate not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked, and the habitat climate is read only from them
Wikidata wikidata nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no item carries Kew's IPNI identifier 18339-2, POWO 18339-2
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

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