Maesa argentea (Wall.) A.DC.
No habitat climate
Photographs not checked
iNaturalist was 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.Cultivation
Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
Climate across the habitat
No habitat climate can be derived: 48 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 48 of the 48 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, Assam, East Himalaya, Nepal, West Himalaya, Myanmar · 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 marker24.58, 99.929 · in the densest population, 17 records (35% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 48 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 26 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 13 km away. 2 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 48 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 48 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 was skipped (not asked) when this page was built; GBIF's observation records with coordinates hold none. Not a statement that none exist.
Related
Other Maesa 8 in the reference
Maesa hupehensis Primulaceae 
Maesa indica Primulaceae Photo: CC BY, Patricia Rose
Maesa japonica Japanese Maesa Photo: CC BY, 岸本年郎
Maesa lanceolata Primulaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated
Maesa lanyuensis Primulaceae Photo: CC BY, 胡正恆(Jackson Hu)
Maesa montana Primulaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Franz Xaver
Maesa perlarius Primulaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Shih-Shiuan Kao from Taipei, Taiwan Maesa permollis Primulaceae
Maesa indica Primulaceae Photo: CC BY, Patricia Rose Maesa japonica Japanese Maesa Photo: CC BY, 岸本年郎 Maesa lanceolata Primulaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated Maesa lanyuensis Primulaceae Photo: CC BY, 胡正恆(Jackson Hu) Maesa montana Primulaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Franz Xaver Maesa perlarius Primulaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Shih-Shiuan Kao from Taipei, Taiwan Maesa permollis Primulaceae Names & registers
Also known as Baeobotrys argentea; Baeobotrys pubescens; Maesa pubescens. (GBIF Backbone)
The record
Family
Primulaceae
Described by
(Wall.) A.DC.
Native to
China South-Central, Assam, East Himalaya +3
Wild records
48 in range · 26 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 synonyms
gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF common names
gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22WCVP native range
wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04GBIF occurrence records
gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21Habitat climate
climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2248 in-range records, none placed to within 10 kmWikidata
wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Maesa argentea (Wall.) A.DC. (the item's: IPNI 588739-1, POWO 60469194-2)Wikipedia
wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22iNaturalist taxon
inat.taxon not askediNaturalist photographs, wild
inat.photos.wild not askediNaturalist photographs, cultivated
inat.photos.cultivated not askedGBIF media
gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22Wikimedia Commons
commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22OpenAlex papers
openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery 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 11 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.