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Medinilla cumingii; photograph author not stated, no rights reserved CC0author not stated, no rights reserved · observed growing wild · 2025-11-04

Medinilla cumingii Naudin

Chandelier tree

Melastomataceae · Philippines

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Medinilla cumingii, photograph (c) Nico Carl, some rights reserved (CC BY)Medinilla cumingii, photograph (c) Kevin Faccenda, some rights reserved (CC BY)Medinilla cumingii, photograph (c) Richard Jacob, some rights reserved (CC BY)Medinilla cumingii, photograph (c) Kevin Faccenda, some rights reserved (CC BY)Medinilla cumingii, photograph (c) Kevin Faccenda, some rights reserved (CC BY)Medinilla cumingii, photograph (c) Kevin Faccenda, some rights reserved (CC BY) 29 photographs ›

Summary

Medinilla cumingii, the chandelier tree, is a species of flowering plant in the family Melastomataceae, native to mossy forest in the Philippines at 700–1,000 m (2,300–3,300 ft) altitude. It is a small shrub, 1–2 m (3.3–6.6 ft) in height, with ternate or quaternate leaves, and many-flowered, pendant panicles up to 25 cm (9.8 in) long. Fruits are 5–7 mm (0.2–0.3 in) in diameter, pink to purplish to bluish-black when ripe.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Medinilla cumingii", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Medinilla

Medinilla is a large paleotropical genus of about 370 species of flowering plants in the family Melastomataceae, native to tropical regions of the Old World from Africa east through southeast Asia to Australia and the western Pacific Ocean. The genus was named after José de Medinilla y Pineda, governor of the Mariana Islands in 1820.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Medinilla", 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. 10 of the 12 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 · 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 marker12.771, 124.052 · in the densest population, 8 records (67% of those in range)
Kew's description“epiphyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 12 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 9 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 145 km away. 95 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 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.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 12 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) Nico Carl, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Kevin Faccenda, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); (c) Richard Jacob, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Other Medinilla 23 in the reference

Medinilla alata Melastomataceae Medinilla alpestris Melastomataceae Medinilla astronioides Medinilla astronioides Melastomataceae Photo: CC BY, Peter QuakenbushMedinilla balls-headleyi Medinilla balls-headleyi Daintree medinilla Photo: CC BY-SA, Steve Fitzgerald Medinilla banahaensis Melastomataceae Medinilla basaltarum Melastomataceae Medinilla crassata Medinilla crassata Melastomataceae Photo: CC BY, M108tMedinilla eximia Medinilla eximia Melastomataceae Photo: CC0, Светлана ЦараховаMedinilla fengii Medinilla fengii Melastomataceae Photo: CC0, author not statedMedinilla formosana Medinilla formosana Melastomataceae Photo: CC BY, Emily ChangMedinilla hayatana Medinilla hayatana Melastomataceae Photo: CC BY-SA, 宜蘭第一公民 Medinilla intermedia Melastomataceae all 24 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Medinilla peninsula; Medinilla speciosa; Medinilla vanoverberghii. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Melastomataceae
Described by
Naudin
Native to
Philippines
Wild records
12 in range · 9 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; 59 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (59 at a botanic garden or arboretum; 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 2026-10-22
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 12 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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