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Polygala fallax Hemsl.

Polygalaceae · China South-Central, China Southeast +1

English names not checked: Wikidata's common names were not read for this page.

No habitat climate
Photographs not checked iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.
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About the genus · Polygala

Polygala is a large genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Polygalaceae. They are commonly known as milkworts or snakeroots. The genus is distributed widely throughout much of the world in temperate zones and the tropics. More on Wikipedia ›

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 2 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 2 of the 2 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.
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: 7415729 (Polygala fallax Hemsl., 2 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeChina South-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).
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 2 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 2 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 7415729 (Polygala fallax Hemsl.): Kew's file holds it as Polygala fallax Hemsl. (accepted); 2 records, from GBIF's download.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Polygala 13 in the reference

Polygala amara Polygala amara Milkwort Photo: CC BY-SA, xulescu_gPolygala amarella Polygala amarella Dwarf Milkwort Photo: CC BY, LjažPolygala arillata Polygala arillata Polygalaceae Photo: CC BY, Mitch Van DykePolygala calcarea Polygala calcarea Chalk Milkwort Photo: CC BY, Joan SimonPolygala comosa Polygala comosa Tufted milkwort Photo: CC0, author not statedPolygala fruticosa Polygala fruticosa Feather Dusters Photo: CC BY, Adele SLPolygala garcini Polygala garcini Dainty Butterfly Bush Photo: CC BY, Cricket RaspetPolygala gazensis Polygala gazensis Polygalaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloPolygala major Polygala major Polygalaceae Photo: CC BY, Наталья ПикаловаPolygala myrtifolia Polygala myrtifolia Myrtle-leaf milkwort Photo: CC BY, Sixolile FaithPolygala nicaeensis Polygala nicaeensis Polygalaceae Photo: CC BY, Matteo BellucciPolygala virgata Polygala virgata Purple-broom Photo: CC BY, Eryss all 14 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Polygala aureocauda; Polygala forbesii. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Polygalaceae
Described by
Hemsl.
Native to
China South-Central, China Southeast, Vietnam
Wild records
2 in range · 2 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 Polygala fallax Hemsl. (plant_name_id 2566332), 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; 2 records of GBIF's key 7415729, Polygala fallax Hemsl. (Kew's file holds it as Polygala fallax Hemsl. (accepted)): the GBIF download
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-222 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 691432-1, POWO 691432-1
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
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 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 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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