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Cephalotaxus oliveri; photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BYKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Cephalotaxus oliveri Mast.

Oliver's Plum Yew

Cephalotaxaceae · China South-Central, China Southeast

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Summary

Cephalotaxus oliveri, the Oliver's plum yew, is a coniferous shrub or small tree in the family Cephalotaxaceae. It is native to China and possibly to Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and eastern India.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cephalotaxus oliveri", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Cephalotaxus

Cephalotaxus, commonly called plum-yew or cowtail-pine, is a genus of conifers comprising 11 species, either considered the only member of the family Cephalotaxaceae, or in the Taxaceae when that family is considered in a broad sense. The genus is endemic to eastern Asia, though fossil evidence shows it had a wider Northern Hemisphere distribution in the past. The species are shrubs and small trees reaching 1.0–10 metres (3–33 ft) tall.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cephalotaxus", 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. 28 of the 29 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, China Southeast · 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 marker29.158, 107.099 · in the densest population, 16 records (55% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 29 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 24 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 300 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 28 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 29 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: Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3).

Other Cephalotaxus 3 in the reference

Cephalotaxus fortunei Cephalotaxus fortunei Chinese plum-yew Photo: CC0, HomoarboreaCephalotaxus harringtonia Cephalotaxus harringtonia Japanese plum-yew Photo: CC0, Étienne Lacroix-Carignan Cephalotaxus nana Cephalotaxaceae

Names & registers

Also known as Cephalotaxus griffithii. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Cephalotaxaceae
Described by
Mast.
Native to
China South-Central, China Southeast
Wild records
29 in range · 24 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 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 (2 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 2026-10-21
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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