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Litsea garciae; photograph (c) Ong Jyh Seng, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Ong Jyh Seng, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2025-10-18

Litsea garciae S.Vidal

Engkala; Pengolaban

Lauraceae · Taiwan, Philippines

No habitat climate
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Summary

Litsea garciae, also known as engkala, engkalak, kangkala, pangalaban and Borneo avocado, is a flowering plant belonging to the family Lauraceae. It is native to Taiwan, the Philippines, Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Sulawesi.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Litsea garciae", 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. 66 of the 69 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.
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).
Map marker22.057, 121.507 · in the densest population, 43 records (62% 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 69 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 32 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1853 km away. 59 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 66 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 69 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 Litsea 15 in the reference

Litsea acutivena Litsea acutivena Lauraceae Photo: CC0, author not statedLitsea aestivalis Litsea aestivalis Pondspice Photo: CC BY, Tom FieldLitsea akoensis Litsea akoensis Lauraceae Photo: CC BY, 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi) Litsea auriculata Lauraceae Litsea calicaris Litsea calicaris Lauraceae Photo: CC BY, 大澤風季 ohsawa_FukiLitsea coreana Litsea coreana Sword-leaf litsea Photo: CC BY, りなべるLitsea cubeba Litsea cubeba Mountain-pepper Photo: CC0, author not statedLitsea glaucescens Litsea glaucescens Lauraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, ErnestolapeñaLitsea glutinosa Litsea glutinosa Bolly beech Photo: CC BY-SA, Margaret BurgerLitsea hypophaea Litsea hypophaea Lauraceae Photo: CC0, author not statedLitsea japonica Litsea japonica Lauraceae Photo: CC BY, 如此甚好Litsea monopetala Litsea monopetala Lauraceae Photo: CC0, author not stated all 16 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Cylicodaphne garciae; Lepidadenia kawakamii; Litsea griseola; Litsea kawakamii; Litsea macrophylla and 1 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Lauraceae
Described by
S.Vidal
Native to
Taiwan, Philippines
Wild records
69 in range · 32 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; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
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 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 15 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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