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Cotoneaster nitidus Jacques

Distichous cotoneaster

Rosaceae · China South-Central, Tibet +4

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Cotoneaster nitidus Jacques: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, Jacq.

No habitat climate
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Summary

Cotoneaster nitidus (两列栒子) is a species of deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub in the family Rosaceae endemic to altitudes of 1600–4000 meters in northeastern India, Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim, and northern Myanmar, as well as the Sichuan, Xizang, and Yunnan provinces in China. It grows to 2.5 m in height, with leaves broadly ovate or broadly obovate, and typically 0.8–1.5 × 0.7–1.3 cm in size.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cotoneaster nitidus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster is a genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, native to the Palaearctic region, with a strong concentration of diversity in the genus in the mountains of southwestern China and the Himalayas. They are related to hawthorns (Crataegus), firethorns (Pyracantha), photinias (Photinia), and rowans (Sorbus).

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cotoneaster", 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. 48 of the 49 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, Tibet, Assam, East Himalaya, Nepal, Myanmar · introduced: Great Britain · 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 marker25.75, 98.967 · in the densest population, 19 records (39% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 49 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 39 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1 km away. 4 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 48 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 of the 49 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built; GBIF's observation records with coordinates hold none. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Cotoneaster 101 in the reference

Cotoneaster acuminatus Cotoneaster acuminatus Acuminate cotoneaster Photo: CC BY, Sagnik Dutta RoyCotoneaster acutifolius Cotoneaster acutifolius Peking cotoneaster Photo: CC BY, Jane CharlenCotoneaster adpressus Cotoneaster adpressus Creeping cotoneaster Photo: CC BY, Remi Aleksander NielsenCotoneaster affinis Cotoneaster affinis Purpleberry cotoneaster Photo: CC BY, jamie-aaCotoneaster alaunicus Cotoneaster alaunicus Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, Fyodor PudovikovCotoneaster ambiguus Cotoneaster ambiguus Ambiguous Cotoneaster Photo: CC BY-SA, Jens KristiansenCotoneaster apiculatus Cotoneaster apiculatus Cranberry cotoneaster Photo: CC BY, Jacy ChenCotoneaster armenus Cotoneaster armenus Rosaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizCotoneaster ascendens Cotoneaster ascendens Ascending Cotoneaster Photo: CC0, author not stated Cotoneaster beimashanensis Rosaceae Cotoneaster bradyi Brady's Cotoneaster Cotoneaster bullatus Cotoneaster bullatus Hollyberry cotoneaster Photo: CC BY, Rosy Thomson all 102 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Cotoneaster distichus; Cotoneaster forrestii; Cotoneaster nagaensis; Cotoneaster rupestris; Cotoneaster salwinensis and 4 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
Jacques
Native to
China South-Central, Tibet, Assam +3
Wild records
49 in range · 39 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 3026064 is Cotoneaster nitidus Jacq.; the page links Kew's Cotoneaster nitidus Jacques, 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; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium; 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 nothing to reportasked 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 12 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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