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Styrax chinensis H.H.Hu & S.Ye Liang

Styracaceae · China South-Central, China Southeast +2

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Styrax chinensis H.H.Hu & S.Ye Liang: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, H.H.Hu & S.Y.Liang.

No habitat climate
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About the genus · Styrax

Styrax is a genus of about 130 species of large shrubs or small trees in the family Styracaceae, mostly native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the majority in eastern and southeastern Asia, but also crossing the equator in South America. The resin obtained from the tree is called benzoin or storax, often used as a vanilla-like component in perfumery.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Styrax", 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. 11 of the 12 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, Laos, 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 marker22.14, 102.975 · in the densest population, 9 records (75% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 12 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 10 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 11 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 12296195 (Styrax chinensis Hu & S.YeLiang): Kew's file holds it as Styrax chinensis H.H.Hu & S.Ye Liang (accepted); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.
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 12 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built; GBIF's observation records with coordinates hold none. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Styrax 17 in the reference

Styrax americanus Styrax americanus American snowbell Photo: CC BY, Samuel BucknerStyrax confusus Styrax confusus Styracaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, David J. StangStyrax faberi Styrax faberi Styracaceae Photo: CC BY, Aaron ListonStyrax formosanus Styrax formosanus Taiwanese snowbell Photo: CC BY, 黃美滿 Styrax fortunei Styracaceae Styrax grandifolius Styrax grandifolius Big-leaf snowbell Photo: CC BY, David Wilkins Styrax hemsleyanus Styracaceae Styrax hookeri Styracaceae Styrax japonicus Styrax japonicus Japanese snowbell Photo: CC BY, mami_t_tStyrax obassia Styrax obassia Fragrant snowbell Photo: CC0, author not statedStyrax odoratissimus Styrax odoratissimus Fragrant Snowbell Photo: CC0, author not statedStyrax officinalis Styrax officinalis Drug snowbell Photo: CC BY, Roderick Cameron all 18 ›

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Styracaceae
Described by
H.H.Hu & S.Ye Liang
Native to
China South-Central, China Southeast, Laos +1
Wild records
12 in range · 10 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 2026-10-22GBIF's key 5541241 is Styrax chinensis H.H.Hu & S.Y.Liang; Kew accepts Styrax chinensis H.H.Hu & S.Ye Liang, and the name is cited as Kew accepts it; its synonyms and common names are read from GBIF's Styrax chinensis Hu & S.YeLiang (12296195) too
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-220 read from GBIF's Styrax chinensis Hu & S.YeLiang (12296195)
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 answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 0 records of GBIF's key 12296195, Styrax chinensis Hu & S.YeLiang (Kew's file holds it as Styrax chinensis H.H.Hu & S.Ye Liang (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API
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 nothing to reportasked 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 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 8 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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