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Syringa pinnatifolia Hemsl.

Oleaceae · China South-Central, Inner Mongolia +2

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Summary

Syringa pinnatifolia, the pinnate lilac, is a deciduous shrub in the genus Syringa, in the family Oleaceae. It is native to Western China.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Syringa pinnatifolia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Syringa

Syringa is a genus of 12 currently recognized species of flowering woody plants in the olive family known colloquially as lilacs. They are native to woodland and scrub from southeastern Europe to eastern Asia, and widely and commonly cultivated in temperate areas elsewhere.

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 15 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 15 of the 15 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, Inner Mongolia, China North-Central, Qinghai · 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 marker30.91, 102.54 · in the densest population, 12 records (80% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 15 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 8 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 33 km away. 2 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 15 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 15 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: Collin Knopp-Schwyn, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Syringa 11 in the reference

Syringa emodi Syringa emodi Himalayan Lilac Photo: CC BY, Sagnik Dutta RoySyringa josikaea Syringa josikaea Hungarian lilac Photo: CC BY, Ксения ВолянскаяSyringa komarowii Syringa komarowii Nodding Lilac Photo: CC BY, Perry Gunnar LarsenSyringa oblata Syringa oblata Oleaceae Photo: CC BY, Urgamal MagsarSyringa persica Syringa persica Persian lilac Photo: CC BY-SA, zahoor qari Syringa pinetorum Oleaceae Syringa pubescens Syringa pubescens Daphne lilac Photo: CC BY, Jane CharlenSyringa reticulata Syringa reticulata Japanese tree lilac Photo: CC BY-SA, Loopy30Syringa tomentella Syringa tomentella Oleaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Meneerke bloemSyringa villosa Syringa villosa Villous lilac Photo: CC BY, Wang.QGSyringa vulgaris Syringa vulgaris Common lilac Photo: CC0, author not stated

Names & registers

Also known as Syringa pinnatifolia var. alashanensis. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Oleaceae
Described by
Hemsl.
Native to
China South-Central, Inner Mongolia, China North-Central +1
Wild records
15 in range · 8 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; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2215 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 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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