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Taxus chinensis (Pilg.) Rehder

Chinese Yew

Taxaceae · China South-Central, China North-Central +1

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Taxus chinensis (Pilg.) Rehder: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (Pilg.) Rehd.

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Summary

Taxus chinensis is a species of yew. It is commonly called the Chinese yew, though this term also refers to Taxus celebica or Taxus sumatrana.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Taxus chinensis", 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. 201 of the 202 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 North-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 marker31.11, 109.87 · in the densest population, 128 records (63% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 202 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 189 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 168 km away. 10 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 201 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 4° block of the 202 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: Bruce Marlin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; 氏子, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; Fumikas Sagisavas, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); 丘崈, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Taxus 8 in the reference

Taxus baccata Taxus baccata Yew Photo: CC0, author not statedTaxus brevifolia Taxus brevifolia Pacific yew Photo: CC BY, Murray McGooganTaxus canadensis Taxus canadensis Canada yew Photo: CC BY-SA, birdspazTaxus cuspidata Taxus cuspidata Japanese yew Photo: CC BY, Violetta DzizyurovaTaxus floridana Taxus floridana Florida yew Photo: CC BY, rainbowkittenTaxus globosa Taxus globosa Mexican yew Photo: CC BY, Liliana Ramírez-FreireTaxus mairei Taxus mairei Maire's Yew Photo: CC BY, Cheng-Te HsuTaxus wallichiana Taxus wallichiana Himalayan yew Photo: CC BY, Thomas Gyselinck

Names & registers

Also known as Taxus baccata var. chinensis; Taxus baccata var. sinensis; Taxus calcicola; Taxus chinensis f. baokangsis; Taxus cuspidata var. chinensis and 2 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Taxaceae
Described by
(Pilg.) Rehder
Native to
China South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast
Wild records
202 in range · 189 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 8641859 is Taxus chinensis (Pilg.) Rehd.; the page links Kew's Taxus chinensis (Pilg.) Rehder, and the name is cited as Kew cites it
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; 8 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (8 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
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 its label; its IPNI identifier 1148780-2 is Kew's for Taxus chinensis (Pilg.) Rehder
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 33 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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