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Osmanthus yunnanensis (Franch.) P.S.Green

Oleaceae · China South-Central, Tibet +1

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Summary

Osmanthus yunnanensis is a species of flowering plant in the olive family Oleaceae, native to Yunnan and Sichuan in the far south west of China. Growing to 12 m (39 ft) tall and broad, it is an evergreen shrub or small tree with leathery oval leaves, which may be flat or undulate. In winter and spring, small clusters of white flowers in the leaf axils produce an intense fragrance.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Osmanthus yunnanensis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Osmanthus

Osmanthus is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae. Most of the species are native to eastern Asia with a few species from the Caucasus, New Caledonia, and Sumatra. Osmanthus has been known in China since ancient times with the earliest writings coming from the Warring States period; the book Shanhai Jing: Nanshan Jing states: "The first peak of the Que Mountain range is Mount Zhaoyao, rising by the western sea, where many osmanthus trees grow, and where rich veins of metals and jade lie hidden."

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

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, Tibet, 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 marker26.56, 100.176 · in the densest population, 17 records (35% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “temperate” · 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 35 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 12 km away. 3 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

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Photographs: Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3).

Other Osmanthus 7 in the reference

Osmanthus armatus Osmanthus armatus Oleaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, You may select the license of your…Osmanthus decorus Osmanthus decorus Oleaceae Photo: Public domain, KarduelisOsmanthus delavayi Osmanthus delavayi Delavay Teaolive Photo: CC BY-SA, Kurt StüberOsmanthus fragrans Osmanthus fragrans Sweet osmanthus Photo: CC BY, 振远 王Osmanthus heterophyllus Osmanthus heterophyllus Holly osmanthus Photo: CC BY, Carrie Seltzer Osmanthus serrulatus Oleaceae Osmanthus suavis Osmanthus suavis Oleaceae Photo: CC0, Daderot

Names & registers

Also known as Osmanthus bambusifolius; Osmanthus brevipetiolatus; Osmanthus forrestii; Osmanthus forrestii var. brevipedicellatus; Osmanthus liangshanensis and 4 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Oleaceae
Described by
(Franch.) P.S.Green
Native to
China South-Central, Tibet, Vietnam
Wild records
48 in range · 35 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; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2248 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 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 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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