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Asarum splendens (F.Maek.) C.Y.Chen & C.S.Yang

Chinese Wild Ginger

Aristolochiaceae · China South-Central

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Asarum splendens (F.Maek.) C.Y.Chen & C.S.Yang: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (F.Maek.) C.Y.Cheng & C.S.Yang.

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Summary

Asarum splendens, commonly known Chinese wild ginger or showy Sichuan ginger, is a species of wild ginger native to South Central China

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Asarum splendens", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Asarum

Asarum is a genus of plants in the birthwort family Aristolochiaceae, commonly known as wild ginger.

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 25 of the 26 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 · 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 marker28.67, 104.01 · in the densest population, 23 records (88% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 26 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 9 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 81 km away. 14 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 25 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 inside the densest 2° block of the 26 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: (c) jonsense, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); (c) Melissa Meadows, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2).

Other Asarum 28 in the reference

Asarum arifolium Aristolochiaceae Asarum canadense Asarum canadense Wild ginger Photo: CC BY, Andrew SebastianAsarum caucasicum Asarum caucasicum Aristolochiaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizAsarum caudatum Asarum caudatum Western wild ginger Photo: CC BY, Karen (with occasional help from Mike)Asarum caudigerum Asarum caudigerum Caudate Wildginger Photo: CC BY, Cheng-Te HsuAsarum caulescens Asarum caulescens Caulescent Wildginger Photo: CC BY, yajapinAsarum delavayi Asarum delavayi Aristolochiaceae Photo: CC BY, KENPEIAsarum epigynum Asarum epigynum Aristolochiaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedAsarum europaeum Asarum europaeum Asarabacca Photo: CC BY, Wolfgang JauchAsarum fauriei Asarum fauriei Aristolochiaceae Photo: CC BY, Hibiki KatayamaAsarum forbesii Asarum forbesii Aristolochiaceae Photo: CC0, Lihai Song Asarum geophilum Aristolochiaceae all 29 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Asarum chingchengense; Heterotropa splendens. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Aristolochiaceae
Described by
(F.Maek.) C.Y.Chen & C.S.Yang
Native to
China South-Central
Wild records
26 in range · 9 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 8558697 is Asarum splendens (F.Maek.) C.Y.Cheng & C.S.Yang; the page links Kew's Asarum splendens (F.Maek.) C.Y.Chen & C.S.Yang, 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; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21found by its label; its IPNI identifier 946407-1 is Kew's for Asarum splendens (F.Maek.) C.Y.Chen & C.S.Yang
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 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 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
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 9 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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