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Mussaenda erosa; photograph author not stated, no rights reserved CC0author not stated, no rights reserved · observed growing wild · 2021-05-01

Mussaenda erosa Champ. ex Benth.

Rubiaceae · China South-Central, Hainan +4

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About the genus · Mussaenda

Mussaenda is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. They are native to the African and Asian tropics and subtropics. Several species are cultivated as ornamental plants.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Mussaenda", 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. 173 of the 175 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, Hainan, China Southeast, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, 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 marker23.28, 111.9 · in the densest population, 138 records (79% of those in range)
Doubtfully present inLaos · recorded by WCVP as doubtfully present: not part of the range records are tested against
Kew's description“climbing shrub” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 175 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 82 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 41 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 173 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 4° block of the 175 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: author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0.

Other Mussaenda 9 in the reference

Mussaenda erythrophylla Mussaenda erythrophylla Red-leaved Mussaenda Photo: CC0, author not statedMussaenda frondosa Mussaenda frondosa Bangkok rose Photo: CC BY, rajesh rocky Mussaenda glabra Hairless Mussaenda Mussaenda macrophylla Mussaenda macrophylla Rubiaceae Photo: CC BY, 胡正恆(Jackson Hu) Mussaenda mollissima Rubiaceae Mussaenda parviflora Mussaenda parviflora Taipei mursaenda Photo: CC0, author not statedMussaenda philippica Mussaenda philippica Buddha's-lamp Photo: CC BY, Natan GabrielMussaenda pubescens Mussaenda pubescens Rubiaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedMussaenda sanderiana Mussaenda sanderiana Rubiaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Franz Xaver

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Rubiaceae
Described by
Champ. ex Benth.
Native to
China South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast +3
Wild records
175 in range · 82 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
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 nothing to reportasked 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 nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
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 19 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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