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Elaeocarpus balansae; photograph 阿橋 HQ, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA阿橋 HQ, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Elaeocarpus balansae DC.

Elaeocarpaceae · China South-Central, Cambodia +5

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Elaeocarpus balansae DC.: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, A.DC.

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About the genus · Elaeocarpus

Elaeocarpus is a genus of nearly five hundred species of flowering plants in the family Elaeocarpaceae native to the western Indian Ocean, tropical and subtropical Asia, Australia and the Pacific. Plants in the genus are trees or shrubs with simple leaves, flowers with four or five petals, and usually blue fruit.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Elaeocarpus", 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 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 9 of the 11 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, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaya · 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 marker22.984, 103.688 · in the densest population, 8 records (73% 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 11 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 5 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 14 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 9 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 11 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: SOAOKAITSAM BROAD WAY 085, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Elaeocarpus 23 in the reference

Elaeocarpus angustifolius Elaeocarpus angustifolius Blue marble tree Photo: CC BY, Grze SwisElaeocarpus bancroftii Elaeocarpus bancroftii Johnstone River-almond Photo: CC BY-SA, Steve FitzgeraldElaeocarpus decipiens Elaeocarpus decipiens Common Elaeocarpus Photo: CC0, author not statedElaeocarpus dentatus Elaeocarpus dentatus Elaeocarpaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Christopher StephensElaeocarpus eumundi Elaeocarpus eumundi Smooth-leaved Quandong Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg Tasney Elaeocarpus glabripetalus Elaeocarpaceae Elaeocarpus grandiflorus Elaeocarpus grandiflorus Elaeocarpaceae Photo: CC BY, PEAK99 Elaeocarpus grandis Elaeocarpaceae Elaeocarpus hainanensis Elaeocarpus hainanensis Hainan Elaeocarpus Photo: CC0, author not statedElaeocarpus hookerianus Elaeocarpus hookerianus Elaeocarpaceae Photo: CC BY, nick_goldwater Elaeocarpus hygrophilus Elaeocarpaceae Elaeocarpus japonicus Elaeocarpus japonicus Elaeocarpaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, 許文俊 all 24 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Elaeocarpus stipulaceus. (GBIF Backbone)

Kew accepts as species of their own Elaeocarpus tectonifolius: older names in GBIF's record of this species that Kew's World Checklist accepts as other species. (WCVP, RBG Kew, file of 2026-06-04)

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The record

Family
Elaeocarpaceae
Described by
DC.
Native to
China South-Central, Cambodia, Laos +4
Wild records
11 in range · 5 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
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 4031472 is Elaeocarpus balansae A.DC.; the page links Kew's Elaeocarpus balansae DC., and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
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
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
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 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 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 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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