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Cryptocarya elliptifolia Merr.

Lauraceae · Taiwan, Philippines

English names not checked: Wikidata's common names were not read for this page.

No habitat climate
Photographs not checked iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.
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Summary

Cryptocarya elliptifolia is a species of small evergreen tree in the family Lauraceae. It is native to the Philippines and Orchid Island in Taiwan. It is classified as Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cryptocarya elliptifolia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Cryptocarya

Cryptocarya is a genus of about 360 species of flowering plants in the laurel family, Lauraceae. Most species are trees, occasionally shrubs, distributed through the Neotropical, Afrotropical, Indomalayan, and Australasian realms. Most plants in the genus Cryptocarya have leaves arranged alternately along the stems, small flowers with 6 tepals, stamens in 2 rows, the inner row alternating with staminodes, and the fruit is a drupe.

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 3 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 3 of the 3 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.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 4177372 (Cryptocarya elliptifolia Merr., 4 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeTaiwan, Philippines · 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).
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 3 georeferenced records inside the native range; none carries a licence permitting republication, so the map shows no points. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 3 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 4177372 (Cryptocarya elliptifolia Merr.): Kew's file holds it as Cryptocarya elliptifolia Merr. (accepted); 4 records, from GBIF's download.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Cryptocarya 16 in the reference

Cryptocarya alba Cryptocarya alba Chilean Acorn Photo: CC BY, Matt BergerCryptocarya chinensis Cryptocarya chinensis Lauraceae Photo: CC BY, Yu-Chang ChenCryptocarya concinna Cryptocarya concinna Lauraceae Photo: CC0, author not statedCryptocarya erythroxylon Cryptocarya erythroxylon Pigeonberry-ash Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneyCryptocarya foetida Cryptocarya foetida Stinking cryptocarya Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneyCryptocarya glaucescens Cryptocarya glaucescens Bolly-laurel Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneyCryptocarya laevigata Cryptocarya laevigata Glossy laurel Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneyCryptocarya latifolia Cryptocarya latifolia Broad-leaved Wild-quince Photo: CC BY, Mahomed DesaiCryptocarya mackinnoniana Cryptocarya mackinnoniana Mackinnon's Laurel Photo: CC BY-SA, Steve FitzgeraldCryptocarya microneura Cryptocarya microneura Brown jack Photo: CC BY, Lucas ChristofidesCryptocarya obovata Cryptocarya obovata White-walnut Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneyCryptocarya rigida Cryptocarya rigida Forest-maple Photo: CC BY, Bryce Watts-Parker all 17 ›

Names & registers

IPNIPOWOWikidataWFOWikipedia

The record

Family
Lauraceae
Described by
Merr.
Native to
Taiwan, Philippines
Wild records
3 in range · 0 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 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Cryptocarya elliptifolia Merr. (plant_name_id 2745935), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 4 records of GBIF's key 4177372, Cryptocarya elliptifolia Merr. (Kew's file holds it as Cryptocarya elliptifolia Merr. (accepted)): the GBIF download
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-223 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 463876-1, POWO 463876-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
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 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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