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Stewartia rostrata Spongberg

Upright stewartia

Theaceae · China South-Central, China Southeast

No habitat climate
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Stewartia rostrata, photograph and (c)2007 Derek Ramsey (Ram-Man), CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia CommonsStewartia rostrata, photograph Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsStewartia rostrata, photograph Wendy Cutler from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsStewartia rostrata, photograph David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsStewartia rostrata, photograph Salicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsStewartia rostrata, photograph Salicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 11 photographs ›

Summary

Stewartia rostrata, the beaked stewartia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Theaceae, native to southeastern China. The Royal Horticultural Society considers it to be a good tree for smaller gardens.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Stewartia rostrata", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Stewartia

Stewartia is a genus of 8-20 species of flowering plants in the family Theaceae, related to Camellia. Most of the species are native to eastern Asia in China, Japan, Korea, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, with two in southeast North America, from Virginia and Kentucky south to Florida and Louisiana.

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 23 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 23 of the 23 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, China Southeast · 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 marker30.196, 119.366 · in the densest population, 12 records (52% 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 23 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 11 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 343 km away. 4 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 23 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 23 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: and (c)2007 Derek Ramsey (Ram-Man), CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons; Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; Wendy Cutler from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Salicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Stewartia 7 in the reference

Stewartia malacodendron Stewartia malacodendron Virginia stewartia Photo: CC BY, Will McFarlandStewartia monadelpha Stewartia monadelpha Tall stewartia Photo: CC BY-SA, Thomas GehringStewartia ovata Stewartia ovata Mountain stewartia Photo: CC BY, Rachel StepekStewartia pseudocamellia Stewartia pseudocamellia Japanese stewartia Photo: CC BY, りなべるStewartia pteropetiolata Stewartia pteropetiolata Theaceae Photo: CC BY, Aaron ListonStewartia serrata Stewartia serrata Sawtooth stewartia Photo: CC BY-SA, Megan Hansen from Portland, OR, USStewartia sinensis Stewartia sinensis Chinese stewartia Photo: CC BY-SA, Wolfgang Sauber

Names & registers

Also known as Stewartia glabra; Stewartia sinensis var. rostrata. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Theaceae
Described by
Spongberg
Native to
China South-Central, China Southeast
Wild records
23 in range · 11 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; 10 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (10 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2223 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 9 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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