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Gleditsia rolfei; photograph (c) 曾昱承 Yu-Cheng Zeng, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) 曾昱承 Yu-Cheng Zeng, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2026-04-03

Gleditsia rolfei S.Vidal

Fabaceae · Philippines, Sulawesi

No habitat climate
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Summary

Gleditsia rolfei is a leguminous tree in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in southern Taiwan, where it grows in the Hengchun Peninsula. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Gleditsia rolfei", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Gleditsia

Gleditsia is a genus of trees in the family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae, native to the Americas and Asia. The Latin name commemorates Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, director of the Berlin Botanical Garden, who died in 1786.

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 7 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 7 of the 7 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.
NativePhilippines, Sulawesi · 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 marker1, 124.583 · in the densest population, 3 records (43% 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 7 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 6 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 31 km away. 42 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 7 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 7 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: (c) 曾昱承 Yu-Cheng Zeng, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

Other Gleditsia 8 in the reference

Gleditsia amorphoides Gleditsia amorphoides Fabaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Laura Veronica BianchiGleditsia aquatica Gleditsia aquatica Water locust Photo: CC BY, i like lizardsGleditsia australis Gleditsia australis Fabaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedGleditsia caspica Gleditsia caspica Caspian locust Photo: CC BY, portioidGleditsia fera Gleditsia fera Fabaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedGleditsia japonica Gleditsia japonica East Asian honey locust Photo: CC BY, Eine süße KatzeGleditsia sinensis Gleditsia sinensis Chinese honey-locust Photo: CC BY, Marco MussitaGleditsia triacanthos Gleditsia triacanthos Honey locust Photo: CC BY, Lisa Bennett

Names & registers

Also known as Gleditsia celebica. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Fabaceae
Described by
S.Vidal
Native to
Philippines, Sulawesi
Wild records
7 in range · 6 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 2026-10-22
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 2026-10-227 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 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 answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
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 8 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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