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Canarium pimela; photograph Phó Nháy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public domainPhó Nháy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Canarium pimela K.D.Koenig

Chinese black olive

Burseraceae · China South-Central, Hainan +4

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Summary

Canarium pimela, also called Chinese black olive (Chinese: 乌榄), is a species of tree in the family Burseraceae. It is found in Indo-China; in Vietnam it is called trám đen or cà na. In Thai, it's called 'Nam Liab (หนำเลี้ยบ)'. The Catalogue of Life does not record any sub-species. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Canarium pimela", 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. 45 of the 46 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, Hainan, China Southeast, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam · introduced: Cuba · 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 marker21.23, 105.57 · in the densest population, 23 records (50% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 46 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 30 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 57 km away. 6 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 45 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.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 8089926 (Lipara nigra (Lour.) Lour. ex Gomes Mach.): Kew's file holds it as Lipara nigra (Lour.) Lour. ex Gomes Mach. (synonym under Canarium pimela K.D.Koenig); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 8694000 (Lipara nigra (Lour.) Lour.): Kew's file holds it as Lipara nigra (Lour.) Lour. ex Gomes Mach. (synonym under Canarium pimela K.D.Koenig); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.
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 46 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: Phó Nháy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Canarium 9 in the reference

Canarium album Canarium album Chinese white olive Photo: CC0, 葉子 Canarium decumanum Burseraceae Canarium indicum Java almond Canarium odontophyllum Burseraceae Canarium ovatum Canarium ovatum Pili nut Photo: CC BY, Beah VegaCanarium schweinfurthii Canarium schweinfurthii African elemi Photo: CC BY-SA, Saint Fédriche NDZAICanarium strictum Canarium strictum Black Dammer Photo: CC BY, T R Shankar RamanCanarium subulatum Canarium subulatum Burseraceae Photo: CC0, author not statedCanarium vulgare Canarium vulgare Java almond Photo: CC BY-SA, Ian Cowie

Names & registers

Also known as Canarion pimelum; Canarium nigrum; Canarium pimeloides; Canarium tramdenum; Pimela caryophyllacea and 1 more. (GBIF Backbone)

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataWikipediaiNaturalist

The record

Family
Burseraceae
Described by
K.D.Koenig
Native to
China South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast +3
Wild records
46 in range · 30 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 2026-10-21
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 answeredasked 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 0 records of GBIF's key 8089926, Lipara nigra (Lour.) Lour. ex Gomes Mach. (Kew's file holds it as Lipara nigra (Lour.) Lour. ex Gomes Mach. (synonym under Canarium pimela K.D.Koenig)): GBIF occurrence search API; 0 records of GBIF's key 8694000, Lipara nigra (Lour.) Lour. (Kew's file holds it as Lipara nigra (Lour.) Lour. ex Gomes Mach. (synonym under Canarium pimela K.D.Koenig)): GBIF occurrence search API
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 2026-10-21IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Canarium pimela K.D.Koenig (the item's: IPNI 127469-1, POWO 127465-1)
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.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 2026-10-22
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 13 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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