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 ›
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Photographs
Photographs: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Related
Other Ardisia 25 in the reference
Ardisia compressa Primulaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated
Ardisia cornudentata Primulaceae Photo: CC BY, Hazel Chang
Ardisia crenata Hen's eyes Photo: CC BY, Alex Abair
Ardisia crispa Japanese-holly Photo: CC BY, plant 0302 Ardisia densilepidotula Primulaceae
Ardisia elliptica Shoe-button ardisia Photo: CC BY-SA, Douglas Goldman
Ardisia escallonioides Dogberry Photo: CC BY, Tom Field Ardisia gigantifolia Primulaceae
Ardisia guianensis Primulaceae Photo: CC BY, Guillaume Delaitre
Ardisia hanceana Primulaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated
Ardisia humilis Low shoebutton Photo: CC BY, Zac Peterson all 26 ›Names & registers
Also known as Tinus wallichii. (GBIF Backbone)
The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 3 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 2 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-211 in-range record, none placed to within 10 kmwikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21found by its label; its IPNI identifier 587737-1 is Kew's for Ardisia wallichii A.DC.wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22inat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21commons answeredasked 2026-10-21openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery 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 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.