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Podophyllum versipelle Hance

Berberidaceae · China South-Central, China North-Central +2

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Summary

Dysosma versipellis is a species of flowering plant in the barberry family Berberidaceae, native to China. It is still widely referenced under Podophyllum versipelle and there is some debate as to its correct taxonomic status. Though it has quite a broad but sparse distribution in the damp, shady forests of south and west China, it has been designated as "Vulnerable" by the IUCN. A compact herbaceous perennial growing to 50 cm (20 in) tall and broad, it grows from underground rhizomes, with umbrella-shaped leaves and dark red, tubular, pendent flowers in spring.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Dysosma versipellis", CC BY-SA 4.0; its title is one of this species' older names (GBIF Backbone), which is the proof that the article is this species'.

About the genus · Podophyllum

Podophyllum is a genus of flowering plant in the family Berberidaceae, native from Afghanistan to China, and from southeast Canada to the central and eastern United States. The genus was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Podophyllum", 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. 78 of the 79 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.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 8336561 (Dysosma versipellis (Hance) M.Cheng, 138 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeChina South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast, 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 marker31.923, 108.676 · in the densest population, 59 records (75% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 79 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 67 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 445 km away. 4 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 78 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.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 8336561 (Dysosma versipellis (Hance) M.Cheng): Kew's file holds it as Dysosma versipellis (Hance) M.Cheng (synonym under Podophyllum versipelle Hance); 138 records, from GBIF's download.
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 79 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 Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Podophyllum 9 in the reference

Podophyllum aurantiocaule Podophyllum aurantiocaule Berberidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Steve Law Podophyllum cymosum Berberidaceae Podophyllum delavayi Podophyllum delavayi Berberidaceae Photo: Public domain, Daderot Podophyllum difforme Berberidaceae Podophyllum grayi Podophyllum grayi Berberidaceae Photo: CC BY, Motohiro SunouchiPodophyllum hexandrum Podophyllum hexandrum Berberidaceae Photo: Public domain, PekajePodophyllum peltatum Podophyllum peltatum Mayapple Photo: CC0, author not statedPodophyllum pleianthum Podophyllum pleianthum Berberidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, peganum from Small Dole, England Podophyllum sinense Berberidaceae

Names & registers

Also known as Dysosma versipellis. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

IPNIPOWOWikidataWFOWikipedia

The record

Family
Berberidaceae
Described by
Hance
Native to
China South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast +1
Wild records
79 in range · 67 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
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Podophyllum versipelle Hance (plant_name_id 2412808), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 138 records of GBIF's key 8336561, Dysosma versipellis (Hance) M.Cheng (Kew's file holds it as Dysosma versipellis (Hance) M.Cheng (synonym under Podophyllum versipelle Hance)): the GBIF download
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 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 107606-1, POWO 107606-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia redirects Podophyllum versipelle to Dysosma versipellis, an older name of this species (Dysosma versipellis)
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 not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
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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