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Knema corticosa Lour.

Myristicaceae · China South-Central, Assam +9

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

No habitat climate
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Summary

Knema corticosa (synonym Knema globularia), commonly known as seashore nutmeg, is a species of flowering plant in the family Myristicaceae. It is a tree found in northeastern India, Indochina, south-central China (Yunnan), Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Java. It grows on rocky and sandy coasts, riverbanks, and lowland forests.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Knema corticosa", 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. 1 of the 2 in-range records is 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 it counts 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 keys of the names Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 3743534 (Palala corticosa (Lour.) Kuntze, 0 records), 3743602 (Knema corticosa Lour., 2 records), 5564385 (Myristica corticosa (Lour.) Hook.fil. & Thomson, 0 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeChina South-Central, Assam, East Himalaya, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Jawa, Malaya, Sumatera · 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“shrub or tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 2 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. 1 in-range record is placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stays on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 3743534 (Palala corticosa (Lour.) Kuntze): Kew's file holds it as Palala corticosa (Lour.) Kuntze (synonym under Knema corticosa Lour.); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 3743602 (Knema corticosa Lour.): Kew's file holds it as Knema corticosa Lour. (accepted); 2 records, from GBIF's download.Records also from GBIF's key 5564385 (Myristica corticosa (Lour.) Hook.fil. & Thomson): Kew's file holds it as Myristica corticosa (Lour.) Hook.f. & Thomson (synonym under Knema corticosa Lour.); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.

Photographs

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

Other Knema 1 in the reference

Knema attenuata Knema attenuata Tapering nutmeg Photo: CC BY-SA, Dinesh Valke

Names & registers

Also known as Myristica globularia; Palala globularia; Myristica sphaerula; Knema bicolor; Myristica missionis and 10 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Myristicaceae
Described by
Lour.
Native to
China South-Central, Assam, East Himalaya +8
Wild records
2 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 Knema corticosa Lour. (plant_name_id 2334920), 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 answeredasked 2026-10-22this 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; 0 records of GBIF's key 3743534, Palala corticosa (Lour.) Kuntze (Kew's file holds it as Palala corticosa (Lour.) Kuntze (synonym under Knema corticosa Lour.)): GBIF occurrence search API; 2 records of GBIF's key 3743602, Knema corticosa Lour. (Kew's file holds it as Knema corticosa Lour. (accepted)): the GBIF download; 0 records of GBIF's key 5564385, Myristica corticosa (Lour.) Hook.fil. & Thomson (Kew's file holds it as Myristica corticosa (Lour.) Hook.f. & Thomson (synonym under Knema corticosa Lour.)): GBIF occurrence search API
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 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 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 585852-1, POWO 585852-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
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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