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Machilus velutinus Champ. ex Benth.

Lauraceae · Hainan, China Southeast +2

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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About the genus · Machilus

Machilus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lauraceae. It is found in temperate, subtropical, and tropical forest, occurring in China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Indochina, the Indian subcontinent, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 10 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 10 of the 10 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.

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: 4178070 (Persea velutina (Champ. ex Benth.) Kosterm., 11 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeHainan, China Southeast, Laos, Vietnam · 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 marker22.396, 114.109 · in the densest population, 8 records (80% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 10 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 10 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 4178070 (Persea velutina (Champ. ex Benth.) Kosterm.): Kew's file holds it as Persea velutina (Champ. ex Benth.) Kosterm. (illegitimate under Machilus velutinus Champ. ex Benth.); 11 records, from GBIF's download.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 10 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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

Other Machilus 14 in the reference

Machilus chekiangensis Machilus chekiangensis Chekiang Machilus Photo: CC0, author not statedMachilus gamblei Machilus gamblei Lauraceae Photo: CC0, author not statedMachilus grijsii Machilus grijsii Yellow Machilus Photo: CC0, author not stated Machilus ichangensis Lauraceae Machilus japonicus Lauraceae Machilus konishii Machilus konishii Lauraceae Photo: CC BY, Jacy Chen Machilus leptophyllus Lauraceae Machilus macranthus Lauraceae Machilus pauhoi Machilus pauhoi Pauhoi machilus Photo: CC BY, Kalvin Chan Machilus robustus Lauraceae Machilus salicinus Lauraceae Machilus thunbergii Machilus thunbergii Thunberg’s bay-tree Photo: CC BY, 胡正恆(Jackson Hu) all 15 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Actinodaphne magniflora; Persea velutina; Machilus velutinus var. longipedunculatus. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Lauraceae
Described by
Champ. ex Benth.
Native to
Hainan, China Southeast, Laos +1
Wild records
10 in range · 10 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 Machilus velutinus Champ. ex Benth. (plant_name_id 2367056), 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; 11 records of GBIF's key 4178070, Persea velutina (Champ. ex Benth.) Kosterm. (Kew's file holds it as Persea velutina (Champ. ex Benth.) Kosterm. (illegitimate under Machilus velutinus Champ. ex Benth.)): the GBIF download
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2210 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 466274-1, POWO 466274-1
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 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 1 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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