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Ochna kirkii Oliv.

Ochnaceae · Kenya, Tanzania +1

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Summary

Ochna kirkii is a shrub or small sized tree with greyish bark, belonging to the family Ochnaceae. Native to East Africa, the plant has been introduced in other countries as an ornamental plant.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Ochna kirkii", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Ochna

Ochna is a genus comprising 79 species of evergreen trees, shrubs and shrublets belonging to the flowering plant family Ochnaceae. These species are native to tropical woodlands of Africa, Madagascar, the Mascarenes and Asia. Species of this genus are usually called ochnas, bird's-eye bushes or Mickey-mouse plants, a name derived from the shape of the drupelet fruit. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Ochna", 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 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 39 of the 40 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.
NativeKenya, Tanzania, Mozambique · introduced: Seychelles · 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 marker-10.583, 40.354 · in the densest population, 26 records (65% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 40 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 37 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 3 km away. 27 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 39 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 40 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: Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3); Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Salicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Ochna 11 in the reference

Ochna arborea Ochna arborea Cape Redwood Photo: CC BY, Henry de LangeOchna atropurpurea Ochna atropurpurea Ochnaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Susan Brown Ochna gamostigmata Small Forest Ochna Ochna integerrima Ochna integerrima Yellow Mai Photo: CC BY-SA, melinoé Ochna madagascariensis Ochnaceae Ochna multiflora Ochnaceae Ochna natalitia Ochna natalitia Coast Boxwood Photo: CC BY, Mark ClarkeOchna obtusata Ochna obtusata Ochnaceae Photo: CC BY, Harsha JayaramaiahOchna pulchra Ochna pulchra Bark Plane Photo: CC BY, Matthew FainmanOchna serrulata Ochna serrulata Mickey Mouse plant Photo: CC BY, Dave RichardsonOchna thomasiana Ochna thomasiana Thomas' bird's-eye bush Photo: CC BY, Addie

Names & registers

Also known as Ochna carvalhi; Polythecium carvalhii. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Ochnaceae
Described by
Oliv.
Native to
Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique
Wild records
40 in range · 37 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; 6 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (6 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds 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 taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons 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 16 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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